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PRELUDE

CONTACTS British Trombone Society www.britishtrombonesociety.org

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Honorary Patron: Gordon Campbell Executive Board

Let me introduce myself. My name is Joanna Cambray-Young and I am the

President

new Editor of 4HE 4ROMBONIST. Although my main instrument is one with

Brett Baker 01606 783869 president@britishtrombonesociety.org

valves (am I allowed to say that here?), I do also play the

Vice-President

trombone, although not as well as most of you, I suspect!

Carol Jarvis

Despite my lack of trombone prowess, I do have a wide

vicepresident@britishtrombonesociety.org

interest in music, and have played in brass, swing and wind

Chair Ben Bouzan eastanglia@britishtrombonesociety.org

bands, as well as orchestras and small ensembles.

Secretary Geoff Wolmark 01377 202209

Fortunately, I have more experience of editing and writing

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than I do of trombone playing, so rest assured that 4HE

secretary@britishtrombonesociety.org

4ROMBONIST will continue to provide the interesting, and, I

Treasurer David Carnac treasurer@britishtrombonesociety.org

hope, helpful articles and features that you have become

Development Officer Stewart Drummond

accustomed to. I’d also like to welcome Peter Chester to the

education@britishtrombonesociety.org

team as Features Editor. Peter IS a trombonist and brings

Staff

with him a wealth of editing and writing experience.

Membership Manager Lisa Penn 0844 4457931 membership@britishtrombonesociety.org

In this issue, you can read Carol Jarvis’s interview with jazz

Webmaster Edward Solomon 07903 152148

and session musician, Barnaby Dickinson, find out what Jonathan Parkes gets

webmaster@britishtrombonesociety.org

up to in a typical week (without being a stalker) and get some more tips on

Associate Webmaster Mike Saville

how to succeed as a professional trombonist from Matt Gee and Dan Jenkins.

webmaster2@britishtrombonesociety.org Please submit news items for the website to David Read: news@britishtrombonesociety.org

There’s also the chance to meet some of the BTS representatives from around

The Trombonist

the country and hear how a strange film inspired one of Gavin Higgins’

Editor Joanna Cambray-Young 07901 733719

compositions. Duncan Wilson tells us what music he would like to take

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with him to a desert island, James Howard shares his musical experiences at

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Huddersfield University and Charlotte Horsfield is our featured ‘Star of the

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Future’. Rob Wiffin talks about some of his compositions, with the focus on

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pieces he has written for trombone, plus there are discussions of BTS events

The Trombonist is published quarterly.

past and future, as well as details of the current BTS competitions. As usual,

Please send reviews to Ben Henderson

there are numerous reviews, including one of the popular pBone, with recent

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news of the imminent arrival of large supplies of these colourful instruments

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in the UK.

Representatives Scotland Chris Stearn 01360 860220 scotland@britishtrombonesociety.org

We would welcome your reviews of trombone CDs, concerts, small ensembles

Wales Arlene MacFarlane 07773 290975

or relevant books. Please send these to Ben Henderson:

wales@britishtrombonesociety.org

midlands@britishtrombonesociety.org (his address can be found here on the

North East & Yorkshire Paul Woodward

contacts information).

01924 823840 northeast@britishtrombonesociety.org North West Kerry Baldwin 07920 022395 northwest@britishtrombonesociety.org

And finally, if 9/5 feel inspired to write an article, or even a letter, about

Midlands Ben Henderson

anything trombone-related then please send it to me at:

+44 (0)7841 755155

editor@britishtrombonesociety.org

9 Bridge Street, Long Eaton, NG10 4QS

Enjoy reading the magazine! I hope to get a chance to meet you at the BTS

midlands@britishtrombonesociety.org Northern Ireland Stephen Cairns 02892 602646

event and AGM on 2 October, in Oundle.

northernireland@britishtrombonesociety.org South Chris Mackey 07758 451146 south@britishtrombonesociety.org South West Tony Evans 01752 263069

Best wishes,

Joanna Cambray-Young

southwest@britishtrombonesociety.org East Anglia Ben Bouzan 07970 502509 eastanglia@britishtrombonesociety.org Wessex Bruce Harding 01202 880814 wessex@britishtrombonesociety.org Brass Band Paul Woodward 01924 823840 brassband@britishtrombonesociety.org Jazz Jeremy Price jazz@britishtrombonesociety.org Young People James Howard 07906 392992 youngrep@britishtrombonesociety.org

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BONE OF CONTENTION

0resident’s !ddress

Autumn 2011

Dear Members, )TlS AMAZING HOW QUICKLY THESE MAGAZINES COME AROUND ) HOPE YOU NOTICED THAT YOU RECEIVED THIS ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE EARLY AS WELL AS IN THE SUMMER )T WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE YOU AT THE HUGE VARIETY OF EVENTS UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY 2ECENT ACTIVITIES )N THE PAST FEW MONTHS WE HAVE SEEN THE "43 3COTLAND EVENT TAKE PLACE AT THE 2OYAL 3COTTISH !CADEMY OF -USIC AND $RAMA WITH $AVUR -AGNUSSEN #HRIS 3TEARN AND 3IMON *OHNSON AMONGST OTHERS 4HE k4IDDLY 4ROMBONESl "43 $AY IN .EWPORT TOOK PLACE IN *UNE )T WAS A JOY TO SEE TROMBONE PLAYERS ALL UNDER THE AGE OF TAKING PART IN A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS FOLLOWED BY A CONCERT ORGANISED BY !RLENE -AC&ARLANE THE "43 7ALES REP AND *O (IRST WHO TEACHES AT THE 0RIMARY 3CHOOL IN #ALDICOT 4HE DAY WAS SUPPORTED BY THE 7ELSH .ATIONAL /PERA AND ""# ./7 )N *UNE WE SAW THE &ESTIVAL (ALL ,ONDON EVENT WITH THE ""# AND IN *ULY WE WERE AT ,EEDS 4OWN (ALL WITH "LACK $YKE "AND WHILE 'ORDON #AMPBELL FEATURED IN (AMPSHIRE 0ENDING EVENTS 7E STILL HAVE A LOT TO DO BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR INCLUDING THE !'- AT /UNDLE IN /CTOBER ) AM EXCITED ABOUT A NEW EVENT IN 0ORTH Y WAEN THIS MONTH AND THE 7ESSEX 4ROMBONE DAY AS WELL AS AN EVENT IN "EVERLEY IN THE %AST 2IDING IN /CTOBER 2EBRANDING 4HE "43 REBRANDING EXERCISE HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL AND THE NEW AND IMPROVED WEBSITE WAS RE LAUNCHED IN -AY !S A RESULT OF CHANGES TO THE WEBSITE CAN ) ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO GO ON THE FORUM AND MAKE USE OF THIS VALUABLE FACILITY )T WOULD BE GREAT TO READ YOUR THOUGHTS AND GET DISCUSSIONS GOING ABOUT A NUMBER OF TOPICS FOR EXAMPLE

&EEDBACK ON ARTICLES IN THE MAGAZINE HAVE WE GOT THE FORMULA RIGHT

(OW WE CAN CREATE MORE REVENUE FOR THE "43 SO THAT WE CAN SPONSOR EVEN MORE EVENTS AND COMPETITIONS

7HAT SHOULD TAKE PLACE AT THE .ATIONAL EVENT IN #ARDIFF IN -AY

.EW LOOK MAGAZINE !S YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THE MAGAZINE WAS REDESIGNED IN $ECEMBER AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL SEE FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS AS TIME GOES ON 4HIS IS DUE TO IMPROVEMENTS IN THE WAY THE MAGAZINE IS PROCESSED FOLLOWING A MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE IN "IRMINGHAM ON *ULY THIS YEAR -Y THANKS GO TO 3TEPHANIE $YER *OANNA #AMBRAY 9OUNG 'EOFF 7OLMARK

0ETER #HESTER +ENNY #ROOKSTON AND 'ERARD +LAUCKE WHO HAVE ALL HAD A HAND IN MAKING THE -AGAZINE WHAT IT IS TODAY -ORE EVENTS 4HE .ATIONAL "43 EVENT AT THE 2OYAL 7ELSH #OLLEGE OF -USIC AND $RAMA IN -AY WILL BE A HUGE EVENT IN THE TROMBONE CALENDAR AND +EVIN 0RICE AND #OLIN "ARRETT ARE WORKING HARD TO MAKE THIS AN EVENT TO BE REMEMBERED FOR MANY YEARS TO COME !LTHOUGH WE HAVE SEEN AN INCREASE IN EVENTS IN WITH APPROXIMATELY ONE A MONTH AT PRESENT WE WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE EVENTS IN ! RECORDING OF CHOIR MUSIC ! #$ OF TROMBONE ENSEMBLE MUSIC WAS RECORDED ON *ULY AT "IRMINGHAM #ONSERVATOIRE AND ) WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE PEOPLE THAT TOOK PART MAKING IT SUCH A SUCCESS )T WAS AN AMAZING DAY AND THE #$ WILL BE LAUNCHED IN 3EE PAGE TO üND OUT MORE ABOUT THE EVENT ! PLEA TO ENCOURAGE GROWTH IN "43 MEMBERSHIP !N INCREASE IN EVENTS WEBSITE REDEVELOPMENT AND A NEW LOOK MAGAZINE

HOWEVER COSTS THE "43 MORE MONEY 7E ARE CURRENTLY ONE OF THE LEAST EXPENSIVE SOCIETIES COSTING ONLY ã PER YEAR FOR A REGULAR MEMBERSHIP COMPARED TO THE ã AVERAGE OF OTHER SIMILAR ORGANISATIONS -AY ) YET AGAIN ENCOURAGE EACH CURRENT MEMBER OF THE "43 TO INTRODUCE ONE MORE NEW MEMBER TO THE SOCIETY BY $ECEMBER !NYONE WHO CAN INTRODUCE üVE NEW MEMBERS WILL RECEIVE A FREE "43 #$ IN #OMPETITIONS &INALLY ) WOULD LIKE TO DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SERIES OF COMPETITIONS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE NEXT YEAR 4HERE IS THE $ON ,USHER #OMPETITION WITH THE üNAL IN #ARDIFF IN -AY AND THE #OMPOSERSl #OMPETITION WHICH HAS A DEADLINE AT THE END OF THIS YEAR &URTHER DETAILS CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE OF THIS MAGAZINE AND ON THE "43 WEBSITE 4HE #OMPOSERSl #OMPETITION IS A SUPERB OPPORTUNITY FOR COMPOSERS HOWEVER EXPERIENCED AND PROVIDES A SHOWCASE FOR THE BEST NEW MUSIC FOR TROMBONISTS 3O GET WRITING AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING YOUR ENTRIES GOOD LUCK 4HE $ON ,USHER #OMPETITION HELD EVERY TWO YEARS HAS REMAINED POPULAR AND PROVIDES GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERFORMANCE AT "43 EVENTS AS WELL AS GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM 9AMAHA -USICAL )NSTRUMENTS

Brett Baker "43 0RESIDENT

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ON THE HORIZON

"RITISH 4ROMBONE 3OCIETY /PEN $AY -IDLANDS AND .ORTHWEST 3EPTEMBER Porth-y-waen Silver Band Hall, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 8LX Please help the organisers by pre-registering your attendance by emailing Brett Baker at president@britishtrombonesociety.org. Don’t forget to bring your trombone and join the BTS Trombone Choir.

Admission to Open Day: Free for BTS Members. £10.00 For Non-Members (it makes economic sense to visit the BTS website and join before attending the Open Day!).

Concert £5.00 to non-participants.

Programme 9.30am: Registration and coffee 10.00am: Warm up and massed blow 1 with Brett Baker 11.00am: Coffee break 11.30am: John Barber (principal trombone of Foden’s Band) masterclass 12.30pm: Lunch, with an opportunity to run through pieces with pianist, Fenella Howarth 1.30pm: Ensemble masterclass with quartets (Black Dyke Band) 2.30pm: Massed blow 2 with Brett Baker 3.00pm: Coffee break 3-30pm: Recital with Stephen Lomas (bass trombone of Leyland Band) 4.00pm: Rehearsals with band, soloists, John Barber, Brett Baker and Black Dyke Quartet 5.00pm: Workshop with Brett Baker on ‘the basics’ and question and answer session with other soloists. Also excerpts from quartets and solos from earlier in the day.

7.30pm: Evening concert with band, soloists and delegates, from the day’s activities

7ESSEX 2EGION 3EPTEMBER Pimperne Village Hall, Near Blandford, Forum, DT11 8UZ Please help the organisers by pre-registering your attendance with Bruce Harding on 01202 880814 or e-mail wessex@britishtrombonesociety.org as soon as possible.

This year we are privileged that Brett Baker, Steve Sykes and John Pritchard are freely giving their services and expertise. The usual trade stands will also be there.

The day is free of charge to BTS members and costs £5.00 for non-member adults, £3.00 for non-members under 16 and £1 for non-members in the audience.

Programme 09:30am: Registration and coffee 10:00am: Massed blow 1 11:00am: Coffee break 11:30am: Brett Baker masterclass, including question and answer session 12:30am: Lunch (bassoon group to entertain) 1:30pm: Massed blow 2 2:00pm: Steve Sykes recital 2:30pm: Coffee break 3:00pm: Quartets and solos from earlier and massed blow performance

%AST 2IDING -USIC 3ERVICE /CTOBER The Hexagon Music Centre, Burden Road, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, HU17 9LP Please help the organisers by pre-registering your attendance by emailing Brett Baker at president@britishtrombonesociety.org Admission to Open Day: Free for BTS Members. £10.00 For Non-Members (it makes economic sense to visit the BTS website and join before attending the Open Day!).

Concert £5.00 to non-participants.

Programme 9:30am: Welcome and registration. Please make it known if you wish to be considered for an opportunity to perform in the afternoon concert as part of a solo, duet, trio or quartet. Also let the organisers know if you wish to take part in the solo masterclasses.

9:45am: Warm-up and trombone choir rehearsal with Brett Baker (Main Hall).

10:30am: Black Dyke Junior Trombone Quartet recital 11.00am: Break 11.30am: Guest artist recital - Stephen Lomas (bass trombone of Leyland Band) 12:30pm: Lunch 1.30pm: Trombone choir rehearsals with James Stretton 2.30pm: Presentation by A Bit on the Slide. Programme to include the world première of Joseph Russo’s trombone quartet, Seasides 3.30pm: Break 4.00pm: Opportunity for quartets and young soloists to play.

5.00pm: Run through with soloists for evening concert 6.30pm: Evening concert with soloists and delegates from the day’s activities

NEWS

)AN "OUSü ELD APPOINTMENT )AN "OUSü ELD HAS ANNOUNCED THAT AS OF 3EPTEMBER HE WILL BE THE NEW TROMBONE PROFESSOR AT THE (OCHSCHULE DER +ÓNSTE "ERN IN 3WITZERLAND 4HE PROSPECT OF WORKING WITH THE INCREDIBLY RICH SOURCE OF LOCAL TALENT COMBINED WITH BRINGING IN TOP STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD EXCITES HIM IMMENSELY AND HE IS LOOKING FORWARD TO STARTING HIS RESPONSIBILITIES 4HOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN STUDYING WITH HIM SHOULD EITHER CONTACT HIM DIRECTLY AT CONTACT IANBOUSü ELD COM OR GO TO WWW HKB BFH CH

$OUGLAS 9EO RETIRES FROM "OSTON 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA

$OUGLAS 9EO HAS ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE BASS TROMBONE CHAIR OF THE "OSTON 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA WITH EFFECT FROM !UGUST AFTER OVER YEARS OF SERVICE (E WILL ALSO BE RETIRING FROM THE FACULTY AT .EW %NGLAND #ONSERVATORY OF -USIC AT THE SAME TIME 3PEAKING TO 4HE 4ROMBONIST ON HIS FUTURE $OUGLAS 9EO COMMENTED m) WILL NOT HOWEVER BE RETIRING TO SIT ON MY SOFA AND WATCH TELEVISION ALL DAY THERE IS MUCH AHEAD FOR ME n 3INCE THIS IS A MAJOR DECISION $OUGLAS 9EO HAS PREPARED A PAGE ON HIS WEBSITE THAT GIVES ALL OF THE DETAILS ABOUT THIS DECISION AND THE EXCITING FUTURE THAT AWAITS HIM IN A NEW PART OF THE 53! &OR MORE INFORMATION SEE THE FULL ANNOUNCEMENT ON WWW YEODOUG COM ANNOUNCEMENT HTML THERE IS ALSO A LINK TO THIS ON THE "43 WEBSITE

.ICK (UDSON IN CONCERT

3ATURDAY *UNE SAW THE APPEARANCE OF .ICK (UDSON WITH (EBDEN "RIDGE "AND AT ITS ANNUAL (ERITAGE #ONCERT !S HE NOW LIVES IN !BU $HABI .ICKlS APPEARANCES IN THE 5+ ARE LIMITED SO IT WAS A GREAT HONOUR FOR THE BAND TO WELCOME HIM AS ITS GUEST AND RENEW OLD ACQUAINTANCES .ICK WAS IN THE SAME 3HEFü ELD 3CHOOLS "AND AS 3TEVE 'ARDNER THE #HAIRMAN OF (EBDEN "RIDGE 4HE CONCERT OPENED IN TRADITIONAL STYLE WITH THE MARCH

#ENTAUR FOLLOWED BY THE OVERTURE ,E $OMINO .OIR 4HEN CAME THE ü RST OF .ICKlS SOLOS WITH A MAGNIü CENT RENDITION OF $ANCE 3EQUENCE BY 'ARETH 7OOD FOLLOWED BY A VERY MOVING PERFORMANCE OF THE TRADITIONAL ,ONDONDERRY !IR ARRANGED FOR .ICK BY (OWARD 3NELL "OTH PIECES WERE APPRECIATED BY THE LARGE AUDIENCE WHICH INCLUDED -ARTIN AND +ARYN -ORTIMER AS WELL AS $AVID 2EAD -"% WITH HIS WIFE 0AT -ARTIN IS THE SON OF THE FAMOUS CORNETIST AND CONDUCTOR (ARRY -ORTIMER WHO WAS BORN IN (EBDEN "RIDGE AND BEGAN HIS PLAYING WITH THE BAND 4HE BAND THEN CONTINUED WITH 4HE -ASK OF :ORRO ARRANGED

BY ITS CONDUCTOR 3ANDY 3MITH FOLLOWED BY 3OMEONE TO 7ATCH /VER -E AND 0HILLIP 3PARKElS &ANFARE 2OMANCE AND &INALE !FTER THE INTERVAL THE BAND BEGAN WITH A RAPID RENDITION OF (OLIDAY FOR 3TRINGS BEFORE .ICK RE JOINED IT ON STAGE TO PERFORM 2OB 7IFü NlS 3HOUT A PIECE THAT DEMONSTRATED HIS MAGNIü CENT TECHNICAL ABILITY COMBINED WITH A BEAUTIFUL FULL SOUND 4HE BANDlS TROMBONE SECTION ALL SUITABLY INSPIRED BY .ICKlS PLAYING

THEN JOINED HIM TO PERFORM ) 7ILL &OLLOW (IM 4HE BAND CONTINUED WITH !LAN &ERNIElS "ROADWAY 3PECTACULAR

$ANCE (ONGOISE AND A NEW ARRANGEMENT BY THE BANDlS BASS PLAYER )AN #OLEMAN 1UEEN -EGA -IX .ICK THEN RE JOINED THE BAND FOR THE ü NALE &RED -USCROFTlS ARRANGEMENT OF "ATTLE (YMN OF THE 2EPUBLIC 4HE CONCERT WAS A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR .ICKlS TALENT AS A SOLOIST AND WAS ENJOYED BY AN APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE INCLUDING LOCAL DIGNITARIES AND DISTINGUISHED GUESTS .ICK STAYED FOR A WHILE AFTER THE CONCERT TO CHAT TO MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE BEFORE RETURNING TO -ANCHESTER !IRPORT TO CATCH A AM Č IGHT TO THE DEGREE HEAT OF HIS HOME IN !BU $HABI

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BTS COMPETITIONS

2012 British Trombone Society Don Lusher Solo Trombone Competition for young tenor trombonists 4HE "RITISH 4ROMBONE 3OCIETY IS PROUD TO REMEMBER ONE OF THE WORLDlS GREAT TROMBONISTS WITH THIS EXCITING COMPETITION

WHICH GIVES YOUNG PLAYERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISPLAY THEIR MELODIC BALLAD STYLE OF PLAYING $ON WAS RENOWNED WORLDWIDE FOR HIS MASTERY OF THIS GENRE OF PLAYING &IRST PRIZE THE $ON ,USHER 4ROPHY AWARDED BY $IANA ,USHER AND A PROFESSIONAL QUALITY TROMBONE DONATED BY 9AMAHA p A CHOICE OF THE 93, : OR 93, 8ENO (OW TO %NTER 3END IN YOUR APPLICATION FORM TO "RETT "AKER ADDRESS BELOW TO RECEIVE COPIES OF 3WINGING DOWN THE !LLEY AND ,ONDONDERRY !IR ARRANGED FOR TROMBONE AND PIANO BY "ILL 'ELDARD 3UBSEQUENTLY SUBMIT UNEDITED RECORDINGS OF YOUR PERFORMANCES OF BOTH PIECES BY *ANUARY 4HE JUDGES WILL THEN PICK THREE ü NALISTS TO COMPETE LIVE WITH THE SAME PIECES AT AN EVENT IN 2ULES AND REQUIREMENTS !PPLICANTS MUST BE AGED OR YOUNGER BIRTH DATE OF 3EPTEMBER OR LATER !PPLICATION IS FREE TO "43 MEMBERS ! FEE OF ã WILL BE CHARGED TO NON MEMBERS 0LEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO k"RITISH 4ROMBONE 3OCIETYl AND INCLUDE WITH YOUR APPLICATION FORM !PPLICANTS MUST BE RESIDENT IN THE 5+ !PPLICANTS SHOULD BE 'RADE LEVEL AND ABOVE !PPLICATION FORMS MUST BE DOWNLOADED FROM THE "43 WEBSITE PRINTED COMPLETED AND SENT TO 4HE 3ECRETARY 'EOFF 7OLMARK #HURCH 3TREET (UTTON $RIFü ELD 9ORKS 9/ 02 3UBMIT FOUR COPIES OF AN UNEDITED #$ NO TAPES $!4S OR MINIDISCS ,ABEL THE #$ JACKETS CLEARLY WITH YOUR NAME BUT DO ./4 LABEL THE #$S 0LASTIC #$ BOXES ARE NOT NECESSARY AS LONG AS #$S ARE PROPERLY PROTECTED FROM DAMAGE IN THE POST #$S WILL NOT BE RETURNED !LL POSTED RECORDINGS MUST BE POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN *ANUARY AND MAILED TO THE 3ECRETARY 'EOFF 7OLMARK AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS 4HE JUDGES WILL DECIDE ON THE TOP THREE PLAYERS WHO WILL BE REQUIRED TO PERFORM IN THE ü NAL ROUND AT A MAJOR "RITISH 4ROMBONE 3OCIETY EVENT IN !N ACCOMPANIST WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THE ü NAL )F YOU ARE UNABLE TO BE PRESENT AT THE EVENT AN ALTERNATIVE ü NALIST MAY BE SELECTED 4HE JUDGES RESERVE THE RIGHT NOT TO NAME A WINNER 4HE $IANA ,USHER 4ROPHY WILL REMAIN WITH THE WINNER UNTIL THE NEXT $ON ,USHER COMPETITION EXPECTED IN TWO YEARS TIME )T REMAINS THE PROPERTY OF $IANA ,USHER

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BTS COMPETITIONS

British Trombone Society Composers’ Competition 2011/ 2012 4HE "RITISH 4ROMBONE 3OCIETY IS DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE ITS #OMPOSERSl #OMPETITION WHICH AIMS TO ENCOURAGE COMPOSERS THROUGHOUT THE 5+ AND ABROAD TO WRITE FOR THE TROMBONE 4HE COMPETITION IS OPEN TO BOTH "43 AND .ON "43 MEMBERS #ATEGORIES #OMPOSERS ARE INVITED TO WRITE MUSIC FOR THE TROMBONE IN ONE OF SIX CATEGORIES 5NACCOMPANIED TROMBONE 4ROMBONE AND PIANO A CONCERTO B CONCERT ITEM 4ROMBONE AND BRASS BAND A CONCERTO B CONCERT ITEM 4ROMBONE AND A RHYTHM SECTION OR B BIG BAND 4ROMBONE QUARTET FOR JUNIOR PLAYERS UNDER YEARS 4ROMBONE QUARTET FOR SENIOR PLAYERS 3UBMISSIONS !LL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY $ECEMBER AND WILL BE JUDGED BY A TEAM OF EXPERT TROMBONE PLAYERS AND COMPOSERS INCLUDING 0ROFESSOR 0HILIP 7ILBY $AN *ENKINS !NDREA 0RICE AND "RETT "AKER .O SUBMISSION SHOULD BE MORE THAN MINUTES IN DURATION 3UBMISSIONS CAN BE MADE BY EMAIL TO PRESIDENT BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG IN THE FORM OF 0$&S AND AN -0 ü LE OR AS A 3IBELIUS ü LE VERSION OR LOWER ! COVERING LETTER CLEARLY STATING THE CATEGORY THAT THE PIECE IS BEING ENTERED FOR SHOULD ALSO BE INCLUDED !LTERNATIVELY SUBMISSIONS CAN BE SENT BY POST %NTRIES MUST COMPRISE OF 4HREE COPIES OF THE SCORE AND PARTS ! COVERING LETTER STATING THE CATEGORY THAT IT IS BEING ENTERED FOR AND THE COMPOSERlS CONTACT DETAILS 4HE SCORES MUST BE BOUND AND LEGIBLE #OMPOSITIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO "RETT "AKER "RITISH 4ROMBONE 3OCIETY #OMPOSERlS COMPETITION 9EW 4REE $RIVE "ARNTON .ORTHWICH #HESHIRE #7 .( 7INNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE "43 $AY IN (UDDERSü ELD ON *ANUARY ON THE "43 WEBSITE WWW BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG AND IN THE "43 -AGAZINE 3PRING 4HE *UDGES DECISIONS WILL BE ü NAL 0RIZES !S PART OF THIS PRESTIGIOUS COMPETITION THE WINNER OF EACH SECTION WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FOLLOWING • THE PUBLICATION OF THE COMPOSERlS SCORE BY A MUSIC PUBLISHER AFü LIATED WITH THE "43 • PERFORMANCES OF THE WORK AT A MAJOR "43 EVENT IN AND OR THE "LACK $YKE "AND &ESTIVAL ON -AY • AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PIECE TO BE RECORDED AT A "43 EVENT BY LEADING 5+ TROMBONE PLAYERS &EES %NTRY TO THE COMPETITION IS FREE TO "43 MEMBERS AND ã TO NON MEMBERS 0AYMENT IS BY CHEQUE ONLY MADE OUT TO k"RITISH 4ROMBONE 3OCIETYl 4HOSE COMPOSITIONS SENT ELECTRONICALLY THAT ARE NOT FROM "43 MEMBERS MUST ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A CHEQUE TO THE ADDRESS ABOVE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR ENTRY -EMBERS SHOULD CLEARLY STATE THEIR "43 MEMBERSHIP NUMBER AVAILABLE BY LOGGING ON TO THE "43 WEBSITE IN THE COVERING LETTER TO THE COMPETITION POSTAL ADDRESS ABOVE #RITERIA 4HE PIECE MUST BE AN ORIGINAL WORK ARRANGEMENTS ARE AT THE DISCRETION OF THE JUDGES 4HE PIECE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PERFORMED PRIOR TO *ANUARY BUT CAN HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BEFORE *ANUARY !NY STANDARD OF COMPOSITION WILL BE CONSIDERED THOUGH THE PIECES ARE EXPECTED TO BE FROM GRADE TO DIPLOMA LEVEL APART FROM THE JUNIOR QUARTET CATEGORY WHICH SHOULD BE AROUND THE GRADE LEVEL !NY WORK SUBMITTED TO PREVIOUS "43 COMPOSERSl COMPETITIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED 4HERE ARE NO RESTRICTIONS ON A COMPOSERlS AGE OR NATIONALITY

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SLIDES

“Playing the trombone is just cool…”

3O SAID 3OPHIE #ECILIA AND 2OSIE THREE YOUNG "43 MEMBERS ATTENDING THE "43 GATHERING INCLUDED IN THE RECENT WEEKEND OF BRASS MUSIC ORGANISED BY "LACK $YKE "AND IN ,EEDS 4OWN (ALL ON 3UNDAY -AY "LACK $YKElS "RASS &ESTIVAL !ND OF COURSE THEY WERE PERFECTLY CORRECT AS TROMBONE PLAYERS OF ALL AGES KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ABOUT OUR INSTRUMENT WHETHER IT IS PLAYING A kCOOLl SOLO IN FRONT OF A POWERFUL BAND AS "43 0RESIDENT "RETT "AKER WAS TO DEMONSTRATE LATER IN THE DAY OR GETTING ENVELOPED IN THAT UNIQUE MUSICAL WARMTH THAT IS A TROMBONE CHOIR &OR ANOTHER YOUNG PLAYER (ANNAH FROM $ENBYDALE NEAR (UDDERSüELD THE DAY HER VERY üRST AT A "43 EVENT WAS TO TURN OUT TO BE EVEN MORE SPECIAL (ANNAH HAS BEEN PLAYING FOR FOUR YEARS AND BOASTS A VERY GROWN UP #ONN ( WITH kA LOVELY ROSE COPPER BELLl

AS SHE SAID BUT LITTLE DID SHE SUSPECT THAT WITHIN HOURS OF JOINING THE "43 SHE WOULD BE A SOLOIST TAKING A BOW ON ,EEDS 4OWN (ALLlS FAMOUS STAGE SHARING THE PLATFORM WITH A WORLD FAMOUS BRASS BAND FOUR OTHER BANDS AND ASSORTED NEW FRIENDS FROM THE "43 4HE MORNING STARTED INNOCENTLY ENOUGH .INETEEN KEEN PLAYERS STARTED EARLY AT AM READY TO WORK WITH "RETT "AKER AND HIS COLLEAGUES FROM THE "LACK $YKE TROMBONE SECTION 'ARRY 2EED AND !DRIAN (IRST !N AGE RANGE OF YOUNG TEENS TO THE kBUS PASS GENERATIONl IN FACT SOON PRODUCED A CREDITABLE SOUND 4HERE WERE NO GENUINE BEGINNERS AND WITH EXCELLENT PLAYERS FROM THE 9ORKSHIRE 9OUTH "RASS "AND INVOLVED THERE WAS CLEARLY LOTS OF PROMISING TALENT AROUND )NEVITABLY

GIVEN THE OCCASION THERE WAS A STRONG BRASS BAND EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE ON HAND AND LESS OF THE ORCHESTRAL AND JAZZ

BACKGROUND ALTHOUGH AS !DAM 2EED FROM "ROTTON IN .ORTH 9ORKSHIRE SAID HE WOULD LOVE TO PLAY IN A BIG BAND BUT GIVEN HIS ! LEVELS AND COMMITMENT TO FOUR BRASS BANDS INCLUDING THE .ATIONAL 9OUTH "RASS "AND OF 'REAT "RITAIN HE CANlT üND THE TIME 3UCH DEDICATION TO PLAYING IS VERY GRATIFYING TO MEET ! GENTLE WARM UP WITH )MMANUELlS 4IDE SET THE GROUP ON ITS WAY 3UCH APPARENTLY SIMPLE PIECES ARE A TREASURE FOR A TROMBONE CHOIR USEFUL NOT ONLY FOR GETTING THE INSTRUMENTS PLAYING AND THE AIR MOVING BUT ALSO FOR THE PLAYERSl LISTENING SKILLS SO THAT THE GROUP CAN PRODUCE THE RICH CHORDS AND OVERTONES THAT MAKE THE SOUND OF A TROMBONE CHOIR SO GLORIOUS 4HIS WAS FOLLOWED BY SOME SERIOUS WORK ON TWO CONTRASTING PIECES üRST BEING 4HE -AGIC &OREST A CLEVER PIECE BY *AMES -AC&ADYEN COMMISSIONED BY THE "43 CLEVER IN THAT IT COULD BE PLAYED BY SUCH A MIXED ENSEMBLE AS WAS PRESENT WITH TRICKY AND RHYTHMICALLY INTERESTING PARTS FOR SOME BASS PARTS WELL BELOW THE STAVE ALONGSIDE ESSENTIAL kSOLOl PARTS FOR LESS EXPERIENCED PLAYERS TO ALLOW PARTICIPATION

EVEN STARDOM AS THEY WERE TO üND OUT 4HE SECOND PIECE 4OWER -USIC BY 6ACLAV .ELHYBEL IS A POWERFUL PIECE FOR TWO ANTIPHONAL TROMBONE CHOIRS )TS OPENING PEDAL NOTES AND RESOUNDING CHORDS PROCLAIMING THE PURE MAJESTY OF A TROMBONE CHOIR IN FULL VOICE )T WAS NOT ALL LETHAL POWER HOWEVER AND THE RHYTHMS PERCUSSIVE EFFECTS AND GORGEOUS CHORDS PROVED A GREAT SIGHT READING EXERCISE FOR ALL CONCERNED /F COURSE IT WAS NOT REALISED BY ALL THAT "RETT HAD HAD A CUNNING PLAN ALL ALONG THAT ONE PIECE

WAS TO BE PLAYED IN THE AFTERNOONlS GALA CONCERT .O PRESSURE THENa 0ARTLY TO REST TIRED LIPS "RETT 'ARRY AND !DRIAN THE "LACK $YKE TROMBONES LED A 1 ! SESSION LATER IN THE MORNING WHICH RAISED ISSUES REČECTING THE CONCERNS OF YOUNGER PLAYERS BUT PROVIDED EFFECTIVE AND THOUGHTFUL REMINDERS FOR MORE EXPERIENCED ONES &OR EXAMPLE A QUESTION ABOUT SUPPORT GRIPS FOR HEAVY INSTRUMENTS LED TO A REMINDER ABOUT SUSTAINING GOOD POSTURE WHEN PLAYING AND üNDING A GRIP AND GENERAL POSITION WITH THE INSTRUMENT WITH WHICH YOU ARE COMFORTABLE "EING COMFORTABLE ENABLES A PLAYER TO RELAX AND CONCENTRATE ON PRODUCING THE SOUND 0LAYERS WERE REMINDED OF THE VALUE OF THE HUMBLE COUNTERWEIGHT ESPECIALLY FOR NOSE HEAVY TENOR TROMBONES 0REDICTABLY THERE WAS THE QUESTION OF PRACTICE TO WHICH THE RESPONSE WAS THAT FOR SUCCESS mPLAYING EVERY DAY DOES GET CLOSE TO A MAGIC FORMULA n .OT NECESSARILY FOR HOURS AND HOURS BUT A DAILY ROUTINE OF BASICS FOR LIPS TONGUES AND LUNGS IS ALWAYS TIME WELL SPENT !DRIANlS ADVICE WAS TO TRY TO PLAY SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY TO STRETCH YOUR SKILLS AND MOVE FORWARD AS ANOTHER TROMBONE PLAYER ONCE SAID mPRACTICE CLIMBING MOUNTAINSn &OR BASS TROMBONE PLAYERS GOING THROUGH TENOR SOLOS IS A GOOD START WHICH HE HIMSELF DEMONSTRATED IN THE LATER FULL BAND REHEARSAL WHEN A CERTAIN PRINCIPAL TROMBONE PLAYER WAS ABSENT FOR $ , "LUES THE SOLO PART WAS EFFORTLESSLY COVERED BY THE BASS 0HYSICAL EXERCISE WAS NATURALLY DEEMED USEFUL BUT NOT ESSENTIALY IN A RIGOROUS WAY "ASICS LIKE A REGULAR WALK OR A SWIM

AND LOTS OF CAREFUL DEEP BREATHING ARE IMPORTANT FOR SUSTAINING THE LEVEL OF

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SLIDES üTNESS REQUIRED "REATHING IS A CENTRAL SKILL AND SLOW STEADY LUNG EXPANSION AND EXERCISE IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE PRACTICED ANYWHERE /NE "43 MEMBER AT LEAST ADMITTED TO PRACTISING BREATHING AND BUZZING HIS LIPS WHILST WALKING HIS DOG

AND THE DOG DIDNlT MIND AT ALL &ROM ANOTHER QUESTION A USEFUL DEMONSTRATION OF TWO DIFFERENT PRACTICE MUTES FOLLOWED THE ONE MADE BY 7ALLACE AND THE ONE BY "EST "RASS #ORPORATION OF *APAN THE LATTER BEING A PARTICULARLY NEAT üT INTO THE AVERAGE TROMBONE CASE )T IS CLEAR THAT THE LATEST GENERATION OF SUCH MUTES HAVE PROVED VERY USEFUL TO MANY PLAYERS REVOLUTIONISING THE ABILITY TO WARM UP BEFORE A CONCERT AS WELL AS PRACTICE AT HOME WITHOUT TOO MUCH DISTRESS FOR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS !NOTHER ITEM ON A TROMBONISTlS #HRISTMAS LIST PERHAPS ! üNAL QUESTION ON CHOICE OF INSTRUMENT

FOR A YOUNG PLAYER MOVING ON FROM A üRST INSTRUMENT LED TO THE ADVICE TO TRY AS MANY AS POSSIBLE AND üND ONE THAT SUITS YOU 4HERE IS NO REALLY DEüNITIVE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION ALTHOUGH IT IS CLEAR THE QUALITY OF SO CALLED kSTUDENTl MODELS IS IMPROVING SIGNIüCANTLY &OR PLAYERS OF ANY AGE LOOKING FOR A NEW INSTRUMENT THEN LARGE "43 EVENTS OF COURSE CAN BE USEFUL 7HEN THE TRADE STANDS ARE PRESENT THEN THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING INTERESTING TO HAVE BLOW ON $ONlT BE AFRAID TO ASK mCAN ) HAVE A GO n !FTER A VERY ENJOYABLE MORNING ALL ADJOURNED TO THE (ALL TO JOIN "LACK $YKElS 0RINCIPAL #ONDUCTOR .ICHOLAS #HILDS AND THE PARTICIPATING BANDS ON STAGE FOR A SHORT REHEARSAL BEFORE THE GALA CONCERT AT PM !LONGSIDE "LACK $YKE WERE #LIFTON AND ,IGHTCLIFFE $ELPH (EBDEN "RIDGE +IRTON 3ELLERS 9OUTH AND 9ORKSHIRE 9OUTH BANDS WHICH JOINED TOGETHER IN

THE SECOND HALF OF THE PROGRAMME )N THAT PART OF THE CONCERT THE TROMBONES OF THE YOUTH BANDS WERE IN PARTICULAR EVIDENCE IN PIECES LIKE 0UTTINl ON THE 2ITZ AND "IG 4OP AND "RETT OFFERED US YET ANOTHER STYLISH RENDITION OF $ , "LUES 4HE GRAND TOTAL OF TROMBONES ON STAGE MADE A PARTICULAR IMPACT IN THE CONCERTlS üNALE PIECE 4CHAIKOVSKYlS /VERTURE 4HE 2USSIAN .ATIONAL !NTHEM WAS PROBABLY HEARD AS FAR AWAY AS (UDDERSüELD "UT WHAT OF "RETTlS CUNNING PLAN FOR "43 MEMBERS 7ELL 4HE -AGIC &OREST WON THE DAY AND WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED INDEED &OR THREE YOUNG PLAYERS THE SOLOISTS IN THE PIECE #ECILIA $OMINIC AND (ANNAH

BEING APPLAUDED ON STAGE WITH THE WORLD FAMOUS "LACK $YKE BAND THE ACRONYM

"43 TOOK ON A NEW MEANING p THEY WERE "RITISH 4ROMBONE 3TARS ,ITTLE DID (ANNAH KNOW WHAT SHE HAD LET HERSELF IN FOR BY JOINING ON THE DAY .OT A DAY SHE WILL FORGET FOR A LONG TIME WE HOPE

British Trombone Society Day - Rogiet, South Wales (ARD ON THE HEELS OF THE RECENT "43 DAY AT THE 2OYAL 7ELSH #OLLEGE OF -USIC AND $RAMA OR SO YOUNG TROMBONISTS GATHERED ON A 3UNDAY MORNING AT 2OGIET 0RIMARY 3CHOOL PRONOUNCED k2OGUTl IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING AND IT CAUSED A FEW PROBLEMS FOR THOSE WHO STOPPED TO ASK FOR DIRECTIONS NEAR #ALDICOT TO TAKE PART IN 7ALESl üRST 4IDDLY 4ROMS $AY /RGANISED BY !RLENE -AC&ARLANE AND *O (IRST THE DAY WAS SPECIüCALLY AIMED AT YOUNGER TROMBONISTS FROM BEGINNER TO 'RADE AND DREW PARTICIPANTS FROM AS FAR AWAY AS (EREFORDSHIRE 4HE ARTISTS WORKING WITH THESE YOUNG TROMBONISTS INCLUDED 2OGER #UTTS AND !LAN 3WAIN FROM 7ELSH .ATIONAL /PERA $ONAL "ANNISTER AND !RLENE -AC&ARLANE FROM ""# .ATIONAL /RCHESTRA OF 7ALES THE 27#-$ TROMBONE CHOIR *O (IRST AND "43 0RESIDENT "RETT "AKER /N ARRIVAL ALL WERE GIVEN NAME BADGES

WHICH ALLOCATED THEM BY ABILITY AND EXPERIENCE TO RED BLUE OR YELLOW GROUP AND DIRECTED THEM TO THEIR üRST ACTIVITY )N THE MORNING SESSION THE 4ROMBONE 3AMBA 0ARADE 3LIDING #ARTOON #APERS AND 7EIRD AND 7ONDERFUL ALL TOOK PLACE SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THREE TIME SLOTS ALLOWING EVERYONE TO EXPERIENCE EACH OF THE ACTIVITIES )N ADDITION TO THE LEADERS OF EACH SESSION STUDENTS FROM THE 27#-$ SUPPORTED THE PUPILS IN THEIR WORK 3LIDING #ARTOON #APERS WAS LED BY 2OGER AND $ONAL AND PREPARED THE YOUNG TROMBONISTS FOR THEIR COMBINED PERFORMANCE FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY AT THE END OF THE DAY 4HE REPERTOIRE FOR THIS INFORMAL CONCERT CONSISTED OF WELL KNOWN TUNES PLUS A WORLD PREMIġRE OF AN ESPECIALLY COMPOSED PIECE GIVEN BY THE OLDER AND MORE EXPERIENCED PUPILS

OF THE kREDl GROUP $URING THESE SESSIONS GOOD POSTURE THE CORRECT WAY TO HOLD THE TROMBONE BREATHING AND SLIDE TECHNIQUE WERE ALL EXPLORED IN A GOOD HUMOURED AND NURTURING FASHION *O (IRSTlS 7EIRD AND 7ONDERFUL 7ORLD OF THE 4ROMBONE WAS A MULTI MEDIA INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION OF THE HISTORY OF THE TROMBONE WHICH MOVED FROM THE MEANING OF THE WORD kTROMBONEl mVERY BIG NOISY THINGn MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE MOST CORRECT SUGGESTION GIVEN BY THE YOUNG MUSICIANS BUT WAS CERTAINLY MY FAVOURITE THROUGH TO THE TYPES OF MUSICAL GROUPS THAT TROMBONES CAN PLAY IN 4HE RANGE OF DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS

FROM BASS TO SOPRANO TROMBONES AND

SOME OF THE PARAPHERNALIA ASSOCIATED WITH PLAYING THE TROMBONE WAS ALSO COVERED 4HIS SESSION IMPRESSED UPON EVERYONE THE SCOPE AND VERSATILITY OF THE TROMBONE 4HE 3AMBA 0ARADE GAVE EVERYONE A BREAK FROM THE TROMBONE AS !RLENE AND ,IZ $ALGLISH 27#-$ TRANSFORMED THE TROMBONISTS INTO PERCUSSIONISTS 7ORKING ON IDEAS AND RHYTHMIC PATTERNS DERIVED FROM WORDS AND PHRASES ALL RELATED TO FOOD THESE PATTERNS WERE BUILT UP AND LAYERED INTO INCREASINGLY COMPLEX PERFORMANCES WHICH KEPT ALL THE PARTICIPANTS ON THEIR TOES &OLLOWING A LUNCH BREAK EVERYONE GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE AND HEAR THE

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SLIDES ADVICE THEYlD BEEN GIVEN DURING THE MORNING SESSION PUT INTO PRACTICE AS THE ASSEMBLED ARTISTS PERFORMED 4HE 3LIDE 3HOW #ONCERT BEGAN WITH A COMBINED ""# 7./ QUARTET AND A THRILLING RENDITION OF THE )NDIANA *ONES 2AIDERSl -ARCH MUCH TO THE DELIGHT OF *OSEPH 2OGER INTRODUCED EACH ITEM TALKING ABOUT THE CHARACTER THEY WANTED TO BRING OUT IN EACH PIECE DRAWING PARALLELS WITH THE WORK DONE DURING THE MORNING SESSIONS -OVING ON TO ALTO TROMBONE

2OGER ADMITTED HE WAS SLIGHTLY AT A LOSS IN INTRODUCING THE NEXT ITEM AS HE MUST HAVE BEEN THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ROOM NOT TO HAVE SEEN ANY OF THE 0IRATES OF THE #ARIBBEAN üLMS &OLLOWING *O (IRSTlS ARRANGEMENT OF THE (ARRY 0OTTER 4HEME IN SIX ČATS THE kFAB FOURl ROUNDED OFF THE üRST PART OF THE CONCERT WITH $ANNY %LFMANlS 4HE 3IMPSONS 4HE AUDIENCE THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE QUARTETlS PLAYING AND ITS CHOICE OF PROGRAMME 3ADLY

2OGER AND !LAN HAD TO GO TO WORK AT THIS POINT BUT WERE GIVEN AN EXTRA ROUND OF APPLAUSE AND A SPECIAL THANK YOU BEFORE DASHING TO #ARDIFF FOR 7./lS PERFORMANCE OF 4URANDOT .EXT UP WAS THE "43 kBIG BOSS MANl

0RESIDENT "RETT "AKER !FTER TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE "43 "RETT INTRODUCED !RTHUR 0RYORlS !NNIE ,AURIE AND ASKED THE AUDIENCE TO SUGGEST TECHNIQUES AND WAYS OF PLAYING THAT MIGHT BE INCLUDED IN THE PERFORMANCE 'LISSANDI PEDAL TONES AND DOUBLE TONGUING ALL FEATURED IN "RETTlS DAZZLING DISPLAY BUT HE COULDNlT QUITE INCORPORATE 2OBBIElS SUGGESTION OF DANCING WHILE PLAYING 4HE CONCERT CONCLUDED WITH TWO ITEMS FROM THE 27#-$ TROMBONE ENSEMBLE

CONDUCTED BY *O (IRST 2AINY $AY DISPLAYED THEIR RICH TONAL QUALITY AND WAS A DEMONSTRATION OF SUSTAINED LEGATO PLAYING AND CONTROLLED DYNAMICS !FTER A

SWIFT CHANGE OF PLACES )N THE (ALL OF THE -OUNTAIN +ING BROUGHT A BIG CHEER FOR THE STUDENTS WHO NOT ONLY ENTERTAINED EVERYONE BUT HAD GENEROUSLY ASSISTED THE PUPILS DURING THE MORNING SESSIONS 4HERE FOLLOWED A SHORT BREAK WHICH ALLOWED THE HALL TO BE SET FOR THE COMBINED REHEARSAL WHICH FOCUSED ON BREATHING POSTURE AND BALANCE BOTH IN THE SENSE OF BEING ABLE TO HEAR THE TUNE AND IN NOT FALLING OVER !T OlCLOCK ASSEMBLED FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT üLLED THE HALL WERE WELCOMED TO 2OGIET BY HEAD TEACHER #ATH %VANS BEFORE THE 27#-$ STUDENTS KICKED OFF THE PROCEEDINGS WITH THE POPULAR )N THE (ALL OF THE -OUNTAIN +ING "EFORE THE YOUNG TROMBONISTS TOOK THEIR BOW

!RLENE INTRODUCED EVERYONE INVOLVED AND GAVE A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE DAYlS EVENTS 4HE ASSEMBLED TROMBONISTS THEN GAVE AN ENERGETIC PERFORMANCE OF THE GALLOP FROM THE 7ILLIAM 4ELL /VERTURE AND THE ! 4EAM THEME DIRECTED BY "RETT "AKER 4HE DAY INVOLVED A LOT OF PLAYING

PARTICULARLY FOR THE YOUNGER PLAYERS SO LIPS WERE GIVEN VALUABLE RESPITE AS "RETT DEMONSTRATED THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE IN 0RYORlS APTLY NAMED &ANTASTIC 0OLKA 4HEN THE YOUNG TROMBONISTS PERFORMED A FURTHER TWO PIECES 4HE &LINTSTONES AND THE #AN #AN CONDUCTED BY $ONAL "ANNISTER 4HE kREDl GROUP SUPPORTED

BY SOME OF THE STUDENTS GAVE THE WORLD PREMIġRE OF 6OCO WHICH WAS COMPOSED SPECIALLY FOR THE EVENT AND IS REVIEWED ON PAGE 4HE 27#-$ TROMBONE ENSEMBLE THAN PLAYED (ELEN 6OLLAMlS ARRANGEMENT OF .ESSUN $ORMA FROM 4URANDOT BEFORE EVERYONE JOINED TOGETHER FOR THE ROUSING üNALE IN THE SHAPE OF 9-#! !LL THE PERFORMANCES WERE VERY WELL RECEIVED BY THE AUDIENCE AND THE DAY PROVED MEMORABLE FOR ALL INVOLVED !

BRIEF CANVAS OF OPINIONS FROM THE YOUNG TROMBONISTS SHOWED THAT VARIETY WAS THE KEY TO ITS SUCCESS %LLIOTT REALLY ENJOYED THE HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THE TROMBONE AND üNDING OUT ABOUT THE DIFFERENT INSTRUMENTS WHILE 3AM PARTICULARLY ENJOYED THE SAMBA SESSIONS !RLENE THANKED EVERYONE WHO HAD TAKEN PART OR CONTRIBUTED INCLUDING -RS #ATH %VANS (EAD OF 2OGIET 3CHOOL

AND ESPECIALLY THE STUDENTS FROM THE 27#-$ WHO GAVE THEIR TIME DESPITE ONLY JUST HAVING üNISHED EXAMS AND RECITALS ! SPECIAL THANK YOU MUST ALSO GO TO !RLENE AND *O FOR ORGANISING THE EVENT ON BEHALF OF THE "43 )N THE CURRENT CLIMATE THE VALUE OF SUCH EVENTS AND THE PROVISION OF MUSICAL EDUCATION TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE NEEDS TO BE HIGHLIGHTED TO ALL 0ERHAPS THE LAST WORD CAN GO TO (ANNAH FOR WHOM THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY WAS kMAKING NEW FRIENDSl WHICH IS SURELY A GOOD ENOUGH REASON IN ITSELF FOR PLAYING THE TROMBONE )ESTYN (ARDING

BTS Scotland at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ! FEAST OF TROMBONE RELATED ANTICS RECENTLY TOOK PLACE IN THE 2OYAL 3COTTISH !CADEMY OF -USIC AND $RAMA IN 'LASGOW

3HOWCASE 4HE AFTERNOON EVENT SHOWCASED NOT ONLY THE !CADEMYlS OWN TROMBONE DEPARTMENT IN A DIVERSE AND WIDE RANGING PROGRAMME BUT ALSO THE STAFF

ALL OF WHOM ARE PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS WORKING IN THE NEARBY ORCHESTRAS IN THE HUB OF ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ACTIVITY IN 'LASGOW $URING THE DAY THE TROMBONE WAS PLAYED AND TALKED ABOUT IN ITS MANY CONTEXTS #HRIS 3TEARN BASS TROMBONE OF 3COTTISH /PERA AND TEACHER AT THE !CADEMY GAVE A FASCINATING TALK ABOUT THE TROMBONE IN THE TH CENTURY (E ILLUMINATED HIS TALK WITH AN APPRECIATION OF WHY THE INSTRUMENT SUFFERED A DEMISE WITH THE RISE IN POPULARITY OF THE VALVE TROMBONE

AT THAT TIME BEFORE ITS SLIDE COUNTERPART RETURNED TO PROMINENCE AS THE INSTRUMENT OF CHOICE (E ALSO ENHANCED HIS PRESENTATION WITH DEMONSTRATIONS ON INSTRUMENTS OVER YEARS OLD !T THE OTHER END OF THE SPECTRUM WERE PERFORMANCES OF CONTEMPORARY SOLO WORKS SUCH AS "RIAN ,YNNlS $OOLALLYNASTICS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR *OHN +ENNY

%NRIQUE #RESPOlS )MPROVISATION .O AND A WORLD PREMIÄ¡RE OF 4IM #OOPERlS 3OLILOQUY )) FOR CONTRABASS TROMBONE

PERFORMED BY 'ORDON 3EITH 3IMON *OHNSON PRINCIPAL TROMBONE

""# 3COTTISH 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA DIRECTED THE LARGE TROMBONE ENSEMBLE IN AN ENJOYABLE PROGRAMME WHICH INCLUDED .ELHYBELlS 4OWER -USIC AND AN

ARRANGEMENT OF THE )NFERNAL $ANCE FROM 3TRAVINSKYlS &IREBIRD 3UITE &ASCINATING /NE PARTICULARLY FASCINATING PART OF THE DAY WAS THE APPEARANCE OF THE 2OYAL 3COTTISH .ATIONAL /RCHESTRAlS TROMBONE SECTION COURTESY OF !NTOINE #OURTOIS

FEATURING $AVUR *UUL -AGNUSSEN 4HEY LED AN INSIGHTFUL SESSION INTO THE WORLD OF PLAYING IN AN ORCHESTRAL SECTION

WHICH INCLUDED PLAYING SOME OF THE kBIGl EXCERPTS AND WORKING WITH SOME STUDENT kGUINEA PIGl SECTIONS IN THE PROCESS !N ENJOYABLE MASSED BLOW ROUNDED OFF AN AFTERNOON THAT HIGHLIGHTED THE INCREDIBLE TROMBONE RELATED TALENT OF THE 23!-$lS STAFF AND STUDENTS

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STARS OF THE FUTURE

CHARLOTTE HORSFIELD Age Home 2ASTRICK "RIGHOUSE Instrument *0 2ATH Current Position ND TROMBONE %LLAND 9OUTH "AND

ND TROMBONE #LIFTON AND ,IGHTCLIFFE k"l

9ORKSHIRE 9OUTH "RASS "AND

.ATIONAL #HILDRENlS "AND OF 'REAT "RITAIN Started playing Teachers 'RAHAM (ORSüELD ONGOING

*ONATHAN %NRIGHT ONGOING Favourite Pieces: Test-piece 7ILLOW 0ATTERN 0HILIP (ARPER Concert piece #ARNIVAL OF THE !NIMALS 3AINT 3AÂNS ARR -URRAY 'RIEG Solos &ANTASY FOR 4ROMBONE *AMES #URNOW

/ &OR THE 7INGS OF A $OVE -ENDELSSOHN ARR 0HILIP 7ILBY Ambition 4O BE IN "LACK $YKE "AND ONE DAY

4WELVE YEAR OLD #HARLOTTE (ORSüELD CAN COUNT HERSELF LUCKY HAVING BEEN BORN IN "RIGHOUSE A TOWN WITH SO MUCH BRASS BAND HERITAGE 6ISITS TO THE 7HIT &RIDAY AND "RIGHOUSE #ONTESTS INSPIRED HER TO TAKE UP THE TROMBONE AT THE AGE OF SEVEN $AD 'RAHAM AND HER GRANDDAD

$AVID SOON SET HER ON THE WAY AND THEIR EXPERIENCE OF BANDING PROVED INVALUABLE IN THE EARLY DAYS 4HE CORRECT PRACTISE ROUTINES WERE SOON THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN 2ASTRICK WHERE SHE NOW LIVES AND ATTENDS THE (IGH 3CHOOL A MUSIC FRIENDLY SCHOOL (ERE SHE PLAYS IN THE BRASS

CONCERT AND BIG BANDS ! RECENT CONCERT IN (UDDERSüELD 4OWN (ALL TO CELEBRATE YEARS OF THE SCHOOL SAW #HARLOTTE FEATURED AS SOLOIST #OINCIDENTALLY THIS SCHOOL CARRIED ON FROM 2ASTRICK 'RAMMAR 3CHOOL WHERE HER GRANDDAD STUDIED IN THE S (ER DAD PLAYS WITH #LIFTON AND ,IGHTCLIFFE "AND ON TUBA AND HE SOON HELPED #HARLOTTE DEVELOP THE BASIC TECHNIQUE $AVID ALSO PASSES ON HIS KNOWLEDGE OF BRASS PLAYING AND THIS IS USEFUL HAVING PLAYED WITH "RIGHOUSE AND 2ASTRICK

"LACK $YKE -ILLS AND THE *AMES 3HEPHERD 6ERSATILE "RASS IN HIS PLAYING CAREER (E SOON REALISED THAT THE TROMBONE WAS A

GREAT CHOICE FOR THIS YOUNG LADY 4HE EARLY DAYS IN #LIFTON AND ,IGHTCLIFFE PROVED USEFUL IN BETWEEN PLAYING FOR %LLAND 9OUTH AND IN SHE WAS PRESENT IN THEIR VICTORIES AT THE !CTION 2ESEARCH 9OUTH %NTERTAINMENT #ONTEST IN THE 7INTER 'ARDENS "LACKPOOL AND THE .ATIONAL 9OUTH "RASS "AND #HAMPIONSHIPS AT THE 2OYAL .ORTHERN #OLLEGE OF -USIC

-ANCHESTER !NOTHER HIGHLIGHT LAST YEAR WAS HER APPEARANCE WITH %LLAND 9OUTH AT THE 3AGE 'ATESHEAD PLAYING BEFORE THE RESULTS OF "RASS IN #ONCERT 3HE PLAYS ALONGSIDE $ANIEL %DDISON IN THIS TALENTED ENSEMBLE 3INCE *ONATHAN %NRIGHT A PROFESSIONAL TROMBONIST AND LECTURER AT THE ,EEDS #OLLEGE OF -USIC HAS BEEN HER TUTOR AND HIS EXPERT GUIDANCE

PARTICULARLY IN THE SWING IDIOM HAS SHOWN #HARLOTTE THE MANY STYLES AVAILABLE TO TROMBONISTS TODAY *ONATHAN IS ALSO AN EXAMINER FOR THE !"23- 4ROMBONE *AZZ SYLLABUS 2ECENTLY SHE PASSED HER 'RADE WITH DISTINCTION AND ALSO HAS SOME SOLO COMPETITION WINS UNDER HER BELT 4WO OTHER BANDS AT WHICH #HARLOTTE ENJOYS HER MUSIC ARE THE 9ORKSHIRE 9OUTH "AND AND THE .ATIONAL #HILDRENlS "AND OF 'REAT "RITAIN AND HERE SHE BENEüTS FROM

THE INSPIRATIONAL TUITION OF "RETT "AKER AND HIS TEAM AT "LACK $YKE $AVID WHO WAS THE üRST MEMBER OF THE FAMILY TO PLAY IS SO PROUD OF HIS GRAND DAUGHTER AND RECENTLY A FAMILY TREE SEARCH FOUND THAT !DRIENNE HER MUM

WAS ALSO FROM A BANDING FAMILY THE &ARRIMONDS OF 7INGATES "AND FAME ! PROUD MOMENT FOR #HARLOTTE WAS A #HRISTMAS APPEARANCE IN WHEN THE (ORSüELD FAMILY QUARTET PERFORMED IN "RIGHOUSE 5NCLE -ARTIN JOINED $AD AND 'RANDDAD FOR THIS CONCERT WHICH INCLUDED A SPECIALLY ARRANGED NUMBER 4HE &OUR #ANDLES BY 0ROFESSOR 0HILIP 7ILBY (E ALSO ARRANGED A SOLO ESPECIALLY FOR HER 4HE 7INDMILL 3ONG A &RENCH TRADITIONAL SONG AN HONOUR INDEED 4HESE NUMBERS HAVE FOUND THEIR WAY INTO THE +IRKLEES -USIC CATALOGUE THE FAMILY üRM FOUNDED IN )T IS TO BE HOPED THAT #HARLOTTE WILL BECOME AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE BUSINESS IN YEARS TO COME 4HE FUTURE IS BRIGHT FOR THIS YOUNG LADY AND HER RELAXED AND PLEASANT MANNER IS REČECTED IN HER MUSIC MAKING (ER AMBITION IS TO PLAY IN "LACK $YKE "AND ONE DAY

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HIGHER EDUCATION

(UDDERSüELD THE k(IDDEN 'EMl OF THE NORTH BY *ONATHON "EATTY TROMBONE TUTOR (UDDERSüELD 5NIVERSITY 7HEN ) DECIDED TO STUDY PERFORMANCE AT DEGREE LEVEL ) üRST DECIDED TO APPLY TO MUSIC COLLEGES ) WAS DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED NOT TO SECURE A PLACE AND WAS EXTREMELY SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT IN MANY INSTITUTIONS ONLY ONE OR TWO PLACES WERE AVAILABLE FOR TENOR TROMBONE PLAYERS !FTER THIS SETBACK ) APPLIED THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM AND WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO SECURE A PLACE AT (UDDERSüELD 5NIVERSITY /UTSIDE OF THE MUSIC COLLEGES (UDDERSüELD 5NIVERSITY HAS ALWAYS HAD AN EXCELLENT REPUTATION FOR PERFORMANCE ESPECIALLY IN THE üELD OF BRASS STUDIES .OTABLE TEACHERS IN THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT INCLUDE *ONATHON "EATTY 0HILLIP -C#ANN (EAD OF "RASS AND 7OODWIND 3HAUN #ROWTHER -URRAY 'REIG AND $AVID 4HORNTON (AVING STARTED AT (UDDERSüELD IN 3EPTEMBER ) WAS GIVEN THE CHANCE TO BROADEN MY KNOWLEDGE OF PERFORMANCE IN A NUMBER OF AREAS JOINING THE 5NIVERSITY "IG "AND "RASS "AND AND 3YMPHONIC 7IND /RCHESTRA 5NLIKE MANY OTHER UNIVERSITIES

THESE ENSEMBLES COMPRISE ALMOST ENTIRELY OF MUSIC STUDENTS AND ARE DIRECTED BY THE MOST EXPERIENCED AND SKILLED MEMBERS OF STAFF 4HESE GROUPS HAVE PUSHED ME TO STRIVE TO ACHIEVE A HIGHER STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE THAN ) WAS PREVIOUSLY USED TO 4HE DEPARTMENT BOASTS TROMBONISTS BASS AND TENOR WHO PERFORM IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT ENSEMBLES WITHIN THE 5NIVERSITY AND ALSO IN THE THRIVING MUSIC SCENE IN AND AROUND (UDDERSüELD 4HERE ARE NUMEROUS ENSEMBLES IN WHICH TROMBONISTS CAN PARTICIPATE RANGING FROM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS TO EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLES AND THE PRESTIGIOUS %DGES %NSEMBLE 4HIS GIVES BOTH UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE TROMBONISTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM DIFFERENT STYLES OF MUSIC THAT THEY MAY HAVE NEVER ENCOUNTERED BEFORE ,IVE MUSIC AND CONCERT PERFORMANCES HAVE PLAYED AN INTEGRAL PART IN MY EXPERIENCE SO FAR AT THE 5NIVERSITY HAVING HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PERFORM IN AND AROUND 9ORKSHIRE WITH VARIOUS ENSEMBLES ) WAS ESPECIALLY PROUD TO REPRESENT (UDDERSüELD AT THE üRST 5NIVERSITY "RASS "AND #HAMPIONSHIPS AT WHICH THE BAND ACHIEVED SECOND PLACE TO "RASS 5NITED THE 2OYAL .ORTHERN #OLLEGE OF -USIC AND -ANCHESTER 5NIVERSITY 4HERE IS ALSO THE

CHANCE TO LISTEN TO AND LEARN FROM PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS WHO GIVE REGULAR RECITALS AND MASTERCLASSES 0LAYERS AT THE UNIVERSITY ARE ALWAYS ENCOURAGED TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND ARE GUIDED TOWARDS NEW PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCES WHETHER IT BE SOLO OR ENSEMBLE (OWEVER AT (UDDERSüELD COMMUNICATION AND TEAMWORK ARE AS HIGHLY VALUED AS TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE AND DEXTERITY k,EARNING BRASS AT (UDDERSüELD 5NIVERSITY GIVES A FRIENDLY BUT HIGHLY FOCUSED ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS TO COMPETE AGAINST THEMSELVES TO THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARD %IGHTEEN IS A YOUNG AGE TO SPECIALISE AND THERE IS SPACE FOR THEM TO üND THEIR VOICE )T ISNlT JUST ABOUT SORTING OUT THEIR TONE OR TECHNIQUE IT IS ABOUT DEVELOPING A mWHOLE MUSICIANl WITH A COMMITTED ATTITUDE AND A TEAM PLAYER WHO LEAVES HIS HER EGO AT THE DOOR l

! STUDENTlS VIEW

(AVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO REüNE MY TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN AN ENORMOUS BENEüT TO ME !T THE TIME OF WRITING ) HAVE RECENTLY COMPLETED MY TECHNICAL TEST AND REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING A SECURE TECHNIQUE AND RICH TONE /NE OF THE MOST EXCITING ELEMENTS OF THE INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS IS THE CHANCE TO EXPLORE NEW AND ADVANCED REPERTOIRE FOR THE TROMBONE FROM BRASS BAND SOLOS TO ORCHESTRAL CONCERTOS AND SONATAS WHICH PUSH YOU TO PERFORM TO THE VERY BEST OF YOUR ABILITIES 3TUDYING MUSIC IS AN EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO BROADEN YOUR MUSICAL HORIZONS AND EXPERIENCE A RICH AND VARIED REPERTOIRE AND ) WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND THE MUSIC COURSE AT (UDDERSüELD 5NIVERSITY TO ANY POTENTIAL STUDENT TROMBONISTS *AMES (OWARD "43 9OUNG 0ERSONS 2EP

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A WEEK IN THE LIFE

*ONATHAN 0ARKES MONDAY-TUESDAY WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY-FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY

-ONDAY BEGINS THE SAME AS EVERY OTHER DAY ) WAKE UP TO THE SOUND OF A BABBLING BABY WHO NEEDS HIS NAPPY CHANGED 4HIS IS FOLLOWED BY A WALK WITH THE DOG FOR THE NEWSPAPER BUT FROM HERE ON IN EVERY DAY IS DIFFERENT -ONDAY IS NORMALLY MY ONLY DAY THAT DOESNlT INCLUDE ANY TROMBONE PLAYING APART FROM A SHORT PRACTISE SESSION IN THE EVENING )TlS MY üRST DAY OF TEACHING THE PIANO WHICH IS SOMETHING ) LOVE DOING )TlS SO DIFFERENT TO WHAT ) DO MOST OF THE TIME AND IT ADDS VARIETY TO MY WEEK 4UESDAY SEES SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT MY BRASS QUINTET 0OLYPHONIC "RASS HAS BEEN ENGAGED BY 5.)3/. TO PLAY AT ITS ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT THE %CHO !RENA IN ,IVERPOOL 7E ARRIVE NICE AND EARLY SO WE CAN GET SET UP ONLY TO DISCOVER WElLL BE PLAYING OUTSIDE ON A VERY EXPOSED AND WINDY STAGE AT THE SITE OF A DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT 7ElRE ASKED TO PLAY LOTS OF k$IXIELANDl MUSIC AND mANYTHING ELSE YOU MAY BE ABLE TO WHISTLE ALONG TO n !LL IS GOING SWIMMINGLY UNTIL A PARTICULARLY STRONG GUST OF WIND BLOWS ,ESl OUR TUBA PLAYERlS MUSIC STAND OVER AND THE FALL SMASHES THE STAND ,UCKILY HE TRAPS IT UNDERFOOT AND CARRIES ON AS IF NOTHING HAS HAPPENEDa

BUT WITHIN SECONDS MY STAND GOES TOO AND WITHOUT REALISING ) SUDDENLY LOOK LIKE )lM DOING THE VACUUMING AS ) ATTEMPT TO CARRY ON PLAYING WITH MY BELL AND SLIDE AIMED DIRECTLY AT THE ÄŒOOR AS ) TRY TO TRAP MY MUSIC ,UCKILY NOBODY IN THE AUDIENCE SEEMS TO CARE AND THE WHOLE EVENT GOES DOWN A STORM ! COUPLE OF DAYS LATER )lM AT !INTREE FOR THE OPENING OF THE 'RAND .ATIONAL )lM PERFORMING THE WORLD PREMIÄ¡RE OF A FANFARE BY THE COMPOSER )AN 3TEPHENS

WITH MEMBERS OF THE 2OYAL ,IVERPOOL 0HILHARMONIC BRASS SECTION )TlS A SLIGHTLY ODD EVENT AS WE STAND NEXT TO 2ED 2UMlS

GRAVE IN SOAKING WET GRASS AND A LONG WAY FROM THE SPECTATORS .OTHING IS EVER STRAIGHTFORWARD AS A FREELANCE MUSICIAN AND YET AGAIN ) üND MYSELF TRYING TO STOP MY MUSIC STAND FROM TOPPLING OVER DURING THE PERFORMANCE A LITTLE MORE SUCCESSFULLY THIS TIME &RIDAY SEES ME DOING A LITTLE MORE TEACHING )TlS A SCHOOL )lVE BEEN TEACHING AT FOR NEARLY TEN YEARS AND ) REALLY ENJOY MY TIME THERE (OWEVER THIS WEEK )lM CLOCK WATCHING ) HAVE TO MAKE A PROMPT EXIT AS HALF AN HOUR AFTER üNISHING ) NEED TO BE MILES DOWN THE - FOR A REHEARSAL WITH THE (ALLÀ /RCHESTRA AT 7YTHENSHAWE &ORUM 4HIS PARTICULAR REHEARSAL IS FOR A CONCERT OF THE MUSIC OF 3IR !NDREW ,LOYD 7EBBER 7HILST ) THOUGHT ) KNEW QUITE A LOT OF HIS MUSIC

) üND THAT THERElS A LOT ) DONlT AND ITlS A REHEARSAL ) REALLY ENJOY )TlS ALWAYS GOOD TO PLAY WITH AN ORCHESTRA LIKE THE (ALLÀ AND ITlS ESPECIALLY NICE TO PLAY A PROGRAMME OF LIGHT MUSIC LIKE THIS FOR A CHANGE -OST OF MY WORK SEEMS TO BE PLAYING "RAHMS -AHLER 4CHAIKOVSKY AND OTHER kLARGE SCALEl COMPOSERS SO HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY A PROGRAMME OF LIGHT MUSIC LIKE THIS IS ONE ) ALWAYS VALUE AND ENJOY 4HE CONCERT IS PERFORMED ON THE FOLLOWING 3ATURDAY EVENING IN THE "RIDGEWATER (ALL IN -ANCHESTER 7E REHEARSE AGAIN DURING THE AFTERNOON BUT BEFORE THIS ) MANAGE TO GET IN A BIT OF WINDOW SHOPPING AT THE VARIOUS BICYCLE SHOPS IN -ANCHESTER )TlS A HOBBY )lVE REDISCOVERED RECENTLY AFTER A FEW YEARS AWAY AND ITlS A GREAT WAY OF KEEPING HEALTHY AND OF HAVING A COUPLE OF HOURS EVERY WEEK WHEN ) CAN EMPTY MY MIND AND RELAX /N THIS OCCASION THOUGH ) DONlT BUY ANYTHING AND GET TO THE HALL AT THE SAME TIME AS !DRIAN -ORRIS THE (ALLÀlS BASS TROMBONIST 7E HAVE TIME

FOR A COFFEE BEFORE THE REHEARSAL WHICH TODAY INVOLVES AN EXTENDED RHYTHM SECTION AND SINGERS FROM THE 7EST %ND IN ,ONDON 4HAT EVENING WE PERFORM THE CONCERT TO A PACKED "RIDGEWATER AND IT IS RECEIVED ENTHUSIASTICALLY /N THE ODD OCCASION ) MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO GO FOR A DRINK WITH SOME OF THE SECTION BUT TONIGHT ) GO STRAIGHT HOME AS ITlS BEEN A LONG WEEK 3UNDAY BRINGS A WELCOME DAY OFF AND ) CAN üNALLY SPEND SOME TIME WITH MY WIFE 'EMMA OUR BEAUTIFUL BABY SON

%DWARD AND OUR ECCENTRIC DOG #HARLIE 7E HAVE A LOVELY DAY OF WALKING AND A PUB LUNCH AND ) GET TO WATCH A BIT OF &ORMULA MUCH TO 'EMMAlS CHAGRIN 3ADLY THOUGH THE DAY GOES BY ALL TOO QUICKLY AND BEFORE ) KNOW IT ITlS -ONDAY MORNING AGAINa

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Barnaby D ) CAUGHT UP WITH VERSATILE TROMBONIST

"ARNABY $ICKINSON WHEN HE HAD JUST üNISHED THE 3TRICTLY #OME $ANCING ARENA TOUR (E BEGAN BY TELLING ME HOW MUCH THE TROMBONE CHAIR ON THAT SHOW HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS NOW INVOLVING BASS TROMBONE AND TUBA AS WELL AS HAVING TO PLAY THE USUAL LEAD CHART ON TENOR m)TlS QUITE CHALLENGE SWAPPING BETWEEN THE MOUTHPIECES AND SEEING THE BEST WAY ) CAN SPLIT A NOTE HA !CTUALLY THE MORE YOU SWAP BETWEEN THEM THE MORE COMFORTABLE IT GETS AND ) QUITE ENJOY PLAYING THEM ALL 4HE MORE VERSATILE YOU ARE THE BETTER ESPECIALLY IN THIS CLIMATE n HE TOLD ME WITH WHICH ) COULD ONLY AGREE "ARNABY HAS ALSO PLAYED PIANO FROM AN EARLY AGE WHICH HE ADORES m) DO QUITE A FEW PIANO TRIO GIGS AND SOLO STUFF )T ALSO HELPS ME TO WRITE AND ARRANGE WHATEVER PROJECTS )lM WORKING ON AT THE TIME ) STRONGLY RECOMMEND LEARNING THE PIANO OR GUITAR AS WELL AS PLAYING YOUR HORN )T JUST DEEPENS YOUR WHOLE UNDERSTANDING OF MUSIC AND HELPS YOUR IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS )lM A BIG BELIEVER IN PUTTING SOMETHING OUT THERE üRST

THEN SEEING WHAT HAPPENS 'UY "ARKER TAUGHT ME THAT n HE GOES ON TO TELL ME m) PLAY AT VENUES LIKE THE *AZZ #LUB

2ONNIE 3COTTlS AND THE (IDEAWAY #LUB ON A REGULAR BASIS )TlS BEEN AMAZING TO HAVE AN OUTLET TO SHOWCASE MY OWN PROJECTS n #HECK OUT VIDEOS OF A LOT OF RECENT GIGS HEREa THEYlRE ADDICTIVE TO WATCH WWW YOUTUBE COM USER "ARNABY$ICKINSON .OT ONLY IS "ARNABY COMMITTED TO THE PERFORMANCE SIDE OF MUSIC BUT HE TELLS ME THAT HElS ALSO INTERVIEWING SOME OF HIS FAVOURITE MUSICIANS 0ETE "EACHILL 4OMMY "LAIZE AND "EN #ASTLE TO NAME A FEW IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE #LUB WHICH SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS FROM THE /NLINE

SITE m4HESE LESSONS INTERVIEWS HAVE BEEN MORE THAN INSIGHTFUL )lVE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN WHAT MAKES EACH INDIVIDUAL A GREAT MUSICIAN AND )lVE FOUND FROM DOING THESE INTERVIEWS THAT EACH PERSON HAS THEIR OWN JOURNEY AND DIFFERENT STRENGTHS THAT MAKE THEM UNIQUE 4HEYlLL BE WORTH A WATCH n !FTER TOURING WITH +YLIE -INOGUE LAST YEAR WITH 'RAEME "LEVINS SAX AND 'RAEME &LOWERS TRUMPET "ARNABYlS HORN SECTION k,ONDON (ORNSl DECIDED TO RECORD ITS üRST ALBUM 4HE k,/.$/. (/2.3 $ONlT ,OOK $OWNl m)lM SO PROUD OF THIS ALBUM AFTER TWO DAYS IT REACHED NUMBER IN THE I4UNES JAZZ CHARTS WHICH NONE OF US COULD BELIEVE !LL THE PLAYERS ARE IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN AND ARE SO INSPIRING 7E HAVE UP AND COMING GIGS IN AND AROUND ,ONDON AND )lM LOOKING FORWARD TO PROMOTING THESE AND TOURING AROUND THE 5+ SOON n WWW MYSPACE COM LONDONHORNS (E GOES ON TO TELL ME ABOUT EVEN MORE PROJECTS THAT HE HAS ON THE GO m)lVE BEEN WORKING WITH A NEW SIGNED ARTIST CALLED *AY 0ICTON 7E HAVE DONE QUITE A FEW SHOWCASES ALREADY WHILE HE SIGNS HIS CONTRACTS BUT ) THINK HIS STUFF IS REALLY GREAT 7ATCH THIS SPACE BECAUSE ) THINK HElS GOING TO BE THE BIG ACT THIS YEAR ) ALSO RECENTLY DID A COUPLE OF LOVELY GIGS AT THE "ARBICAN WITH FULL ORCHESTRA AND BIG BAND /NE WAS WITH 0ALOMA &AITH SHE IS JUST BRILLIANT A TOTAL CHARACTER WE LOVE THAT AND THE OTHER WAS THE ANNUAL k*AZZ 6OICEl SHOW FEATURING SOME AMAZING VOCALISTS FROM THE 5+ AND THE 53! "OTH WERE RECORDED FOR ""# 2ADIO n "ARNABY ALSO WRITES AND ARRANGES FOR A LOT OF THE 3TRICTLY #OME $ANCING SINGERS AWAY FROM THE HIT ""# SHOW m(AYLEY 3ANDERSON HAS A BEAUTIFUL ALBUM OUT WITH PIANIST 2ICK 7AKEMAN THAT ) HAD

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Dickinson THE PLEASURE OF ARRANGING SOME STRINGS FOR ) WAS ALSO HER -$ FOR HER OWN .EW /RLEANS &UNK BAND ,ANCE %LLINGTON AND ) HAVE JUST üNISHED A THEATRE TOUR PLAYING SOME OF HIS DADlS MUSIC 2AY %LLINGTON FROM 4HE 'OON 3HOW ) DID SOME ARRANGEMENTS AND PERFORMED ON THE TOUR ) LOVED üNDING OUT ALL THE COMMERCIALS THAT ,ANCE HAS SUNG ON LIKE 'ILLETTE AND 4ANNER ,ADY n #OMING UP "ARNABY HAS PLENTY UP HIS SLEEVES m!NDREA 'RANT WHO HAS BEEN A BACKING SINGER FOR PERFORMERS SUCH AS 2OBBIE 7ILLIAMS HAS BEEN A PART OF MY /RIGINALS "AND FOR A WHILE THAT )lM HOPING TO RECORD SOMETIME THIS YEAR )TlS A CROSS BETWEEN $AMIEN 2ICE AND +ENNY 7HEELER 7E HAVE DONE A FEW GIGS ALREADY AND )lM LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING ON THAT IN THE FUTURE n ) THINK CHATTING TO "ARNABY HAS VERY MUCH kHIT THE NAIL ON THE HEADl IN TERMS OF HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY MAKE A PLACE FOR YOURSELF IN TODAYlS TROMBONE WORLD "EING VERSATILE IS SO IMPORTANT AND HE SUMMED EVERYTHING UP WITH A LOVELY STATEMENT m!S YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL ) AM A k-USICIANl AND ,/6% EVERYTHING TO DO WITH MUSIC 4HE TROMBONE IS JUST ONE PART OF MY WHOLE VOICE 7HETHER ITlS NIPPING IN TO DO A QUICK 46 ADVERT OR DOING A CORPORATE FUNCTION PLAYING IN A TIGHT HORN SECTION OR SINGING BACKING VOCALS WITH -C&LY THIS IS MY WORKING LIFE AND IS THE THING THAT ) LIVE FOR n #AROL *ARVIS "43 6ICE 0RESIDENT

"ARNABY $ICKINSON WAS RAISED IN "URNLEY

,ANCASHIRE AND STUDIED PIANO AND TROMBONE FROM AN EARLY AGE (E STUDIED AT 4HE 2OYAL .ORTHERN #OLLEGE OF -USIC AND 3ALFORD 5NIVERSITY AND SUBSEQUENTLY AT THE 'UILDHALL 3CHOOL OF -USIC AND $RAMA IN ,ONDON 3INCE GRADUATING HE HAS ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A FREELANCE MUSICIAN AND SONGWRITER

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TIPS FROM THE TOP

BY $AN *ENKINS (AVING READ -ATT 'EElS EXCELLENT ARTICLE ON AUDITION TECHNIQUE IN THE SUMMER ISSUE OF 4HE 4ROMBONIST ) THOUGHT )lD HAVE A STAB AT WRITING A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE NEXT STAGE TRIALS )F YOUlVE FOLLOWED -ATTlS PROGRAMME OR HOWEVER ELSE YOUlVE DONE IT AND A TRIAL WITH AN ORCHESTRA HAS COME YOUR WAY HERE ARE JUST A FEW THOUGHTS ON HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS NEXT LEVEL /BVIOUSLY THIS IS THEREFORE AIMED AT YOUNG PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE EMBARKING ON THEIR üRST OR SECOND TRIALS

AS A SORT OF POINTER IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION &OR ME TO COMMENT ON ANYONE WITH ANY MORE EXPERIENCE THAN THAT WOULD BE UTTERLY WRONG AS THEYlLL HAVE GAINED THEIR OWN THOUGHTS BY THEN !ND TO CALL THIS ARTICLE 4RIAL 4ECHNIQUE WOULD BE

WRONG TOO AS THERElS NO SUCH THING THE FACTORS VARY SO HUGELY FROM ORCHESTRA TO ORCHESTRA AND FROM TRIALIST TO TRIALIST )TlS A TRICKY DAY THAT üRST DAY WITH A NEW ORCHESTRA 9OUlLL HAVE MET SOME OF THE SECTION IN YOUR AUDITION AND YOU DO KNOW THAT THEY AT LEAST APPROVE OF WHAT YOU DID THAT DAY SO THATlS A COMFORTING START 7ITHOUT GOING INTO A BLOW BY BLOW ACCOUNT OF EVERY MOMENT ON TRIAL LETlS MAKE THINGS SIMPLER 4HERE ARE NO RULES AS ) SAID EARLIER EACH INDIVIDUAL ORCHESTRA AND SITUATION IS DIFFERENT BUT THE üRST AND LAST ADVICE ) CAN OFFER IS "E 9OURSELF ) PROMISE IT ISNlT WORTH BEING ANYTHING ELSE 0RETENCE ISNlT GOING TO DO ANYONE ANY FAVOURS AND WILL

JUST FALSIFY THE TRIAL PROCESS FOR YOU EVEN MORE THAN FOR THEM /N A MUCH LIGHTER NOTE BE MUSICALLY AMENABLE !DAPTABILITY IS SUCH AN ASSET )F THE CONDUCTOR ASKS THE SECTION TO DO SOMETHING IN A DIFFERENT WAY JUST DO IT )F YOUlRE ON TRIAL ON PRINCIPAL LEAD THAT DIFFERENCE IF YOUlRE ON TRIAL ON ND OR BASS FOLLOW THE PRINCIPAL #ONCENTRATE AND BE PART OF THE SECTION 4HATlS WHAT THE WHOLE AIM IS AFTER ALL 3O MUCH OF THIS IS COMMON MUSICAL SENSE !LONG WITH MUSICAL AMENABILITY THERElS THAT WONDERFUL THING CALLED RADAR 2ADAR IS ONE OF THE WAYS A SECTION PLAYS TOGETHER REACTS AND EVEN THINKS MUSICALLY TOGETHER 4HAT WAS ONE OF MY

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TIPS FROM THE TOP

SHOW THAT THE AUDITION WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT YOU CAN REALLY PLAY

AND IT PROBABLY WASNlT 7ElVE ALL FELT THAT WAY AND ITlS VERY DIFüCULT NOT TO PLAY YOUR HEART OUT BACKSTAGE !FTER ALL

YOUlVE DONE REALLY WELL YOUlRE ON TRIAL WITH A REAL PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRA AND ITlS A EUPHORIC FEELING "Y ALL MEANS STICK A PRACTICE MUTE IN IN YOUR HOTEL ROOM AND PLAY k"LUE "ELLSl FOR HOURS /R EVEN üND A REMOTE CORNER OF THE VENUE AND BLOW A FEW UPLIFTING TUNES TO YOURSELF "UT BACKSTAGE )lM SORRY TO SAY IT SOUNDS LIKE BRAVADO AND THAT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA )TlS DOUBLY NOT A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE YOUR TRIAL HAS TWO PURPOSES /NE IS TO GET THE JOB

WHICH MAY HAPPEN BUT CAN ONLY HAPPEN TO ONE PERSON 4HE SECOND PURPOSE WHICH ) WOULD SAY IS A MORE IMPORTANT REASON FOR DOING A GOOD TRIAL IS TO GET ANOTHER BOOKING WITH THE ORCHESTRA TO TRY AND GET SOME MORE WORK I E TO GET A PLACE ON THE EXTRA LIST

MANY JOYS OF FREELANCING TO GO INTO DIFFERENT SECTIONS AND ADAPT TO THEIR OWN WAY OF PLAYING WHICH COULD BE VERY WIDE RANGING .OTE LENGTHS ARTICULATION STYLE

EVEN THE ENTIRE ATTITUDE TO PLAYING ITlS ALL VARIABLE AND FASCINATING )F YOU CAN TRY TO LEARN THIS KIND OF COMMUNICATION ITlS A HUGE BONUS !ND THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOUlVE EITHER GOT OR YOU HAVENlT ITlS LEARNABLE *UST LISTEN AND REACT "UY A PENCIL )F SOMETHING IS SUGGESTED TO THE SECTION BY THE CONDUCTOR MARK IT IN )F YOU MAKE A MISTAKE SOMETHING TRIVIAL

IT DOESNlT MATTER MARK IT IN AND THEN YOU KNOW IT WONlT HAPPEN NEXT TIME 4HEREFORE YOUlRE GENUINELY ENHANCING THE SECTION AND BEING SEEN TO DO SO 4HEYlRE P IN 2YMANS "EAT THAT 4RY NOT TO SHOW OFF 4HIS IS A DIFüCULT ONE 9OU PROBABLY DONlT MEAN TO YOUlRE PROBABLY FULL OF BEANS DESPERATE TO

4HE QUESTION OF SOCIABILITY OFTEN COMES UP *OIN IN AFTERWARDS AS MUCH OR AS LITTLE AS YOU LIKE ! STUDENT ASKED ME IF HE SHOULD GO WITH THE SECTION TO THE PUB ) SAID YES AND IF HE DIDNlT WANT TO HAVE A BEER THEYlD RESPECT THAT )F THEY DIDNlT THEN MAYBE IT WASNlT THE BAND FOR HIM ANYWAY "E YOURSELF -ATT 'EElS ADVICE ON PREPARATION HOLDS JUST AS TRUE FOR TRIALS 4HERElS NOTHING WRONG WITH GETTING HOLD OF THE MUSIC BEFOREHAND !LL ORCHESTRAS HAVE LIBRARIES

JUST PHONE THEM UP AND THEYlLL SEND COPIES TO YOU /NE QUICK TALE JUST TO ENDORSE -ATTlS AUDITION ADVICE ! PLAYER IN A ,ONDON BAND HAD A "OLERO TO DO AS PART OF HIS TRIAL &OR WEEKS BEFORE THE SHOW HE SAT IN HIS ROOM AT HOME STARTED THE RECORD FROM THE BEGINNING SAT THERE THROUGH ALL THE OTHER SOLOS THEN CAME IN IN REAL TIME AND PLAYED THE TROMBONE SOLO )

HAPPENED TO BE SITTING NEXT TO HIM IN THE ORCHESTRA WHEN HE CAME TO DO IT FOR REAL HE PLAYED IT IMMACULATELY AND GOT THE JOB 4HERElS A TRICKY SITUATION IF YOUlRE ON TRIAL FOR A PRINCIPAL JOB !T CERTAIN TIMES IN THE REPERTOIRE THE SECTION WILL APPRECIATE A LEAD FROM THE FRONT 4HE LAST CHORD OF THE ST MOVEMENT OF 4CHAIK MAYBE OR THERElS A GREAT EXAMPLE IN $ON *UAN "UT PLEASE DONlT OVERDO THIS ! TRIALIST WHO OVERLEADS WILL BE SEEN AS EITHER COCKY OR INSECURE -Y ADVICE WOULD BE TO UNDERDO IT AND THEN IF ONE OF THE SECTION ASKS YOU TO LEAD SOMETHING YOUlRE DOING /+ 4HE BEST LEADERS JUST DO IT EFFECTIVELY AND ONLY IF ITlS NEEDED WHICH ISNlT OFTEN )F YOUlRE ON TRIAL ON ND THE RADAR IS A HUGE THING AND LISTEN LIKE HELL )F YOUlRE ON TRIAL ON BASS OBVIOUSLY HANG ON THE TUBAlS EVERY NOTE THEIR TUNING AND SOUND AND BALANCE TRY TO MATCH UP TO ALL OF THAT 4HEN YOU CAN START REACTING TO THE DOUBLE BASSES CELLOS TIMPS AND BASSOONS .OTHING TO IT REALLY ) HOPE THIS AND -ATTlS ARTICLES WILL BE OF SOME HELP TO PEOPLE IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A WORKING PROFESSIONAL ORCHESTRAL TROMBONE PLAYER 4HERElS MUCH MORE TO IT OF COURSE AND OTHER PLAYERS WILL HAVE A LOT MORE IDEAS AND ADVICE TO OFFER THIS IS JUST A TIP OF THE ICEBERG VERSION FROM ME /NE LAST THING IN THE TRIAL SITUATION ONLY ONE PERSON CAN GET THE JOB )F IT ISNlT YOU

TRY TO TAKE IT IN YOUR STRIDE 2EMEMBER THAT THE TRIAL WAS ALSO A CHANCE TO LOOK AFTER FUTURE PROSPECTS SO TRY NOT TO GET TOO FRUSTRATED !S A FREELANCER EVERY DATE YOU EVER DO IS A TRIAL ANYWAY SO TREAT IT ALL THE SAME JUST DO AS WELL AS YOU CAN "E YOURSELF AND ENJOY IT

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! SOLOISTlS SUSTENANCE BY -ATT 'EE

ROUND TWO WHILE 7AGENSEILlS #ONCERTO PER 4ROMBONE AND *OZKA -ATEJlS 3ONATA COMPLETED THE üNAL ROUND )N ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IT WAS NECESSARY TO BE RELEASED FROM MY COMMITMENTS WITH THE 2OYAL 0HILHARMONIC /RCHESTRA )N LATE -ARCH PERMISSION WAS üNALLY GRANTED LEAVING ME SIX WEEKS IN WHICH TO LEARN PRACTISE AND POLISH ALL OF THE PROGRAMMES ! TALL ORDER INDEED SEVEN WORKS FOUR WERE COMPLETELY NEW SIX OF WHICH ) WANTED TO PERFORM FROM MEMORY ) WAS SCEPTICAL ABOUT THE MERITS OF RUSHING SUCH AN ENDEAVOUR

BUT AFTER TALKING THINGS THROUGH WITH A VERY GOOD FRIEND WHO HAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY %UROPEAN OUTLOOK FOR

"ACK IN $ECEMBER ) RECORDED AND SUBMITTED 0ERGOLESIlS 3INFONIA TO THE 0RAGUE 3PRING -USIC &ESTIVAL

IN THE HOPE THAT ) WOULD BE SELECTED TO PARTICIPATE IN ITS )NTERNATIONAL 4ROMBONE #OMPETITION THE FOLLOWING -AY 4HE COMPETITION WAS TO BE HELD OVER THREE ROUNDS AND WHILE THE REPERTOIRE WAS DAUNTING IT DID NOT INITIALLY APPEAR OVERLY TAXING (ENRI $UTILLEUXlS #HORAL #ADENCE ET &UGATO AND THE AFOREMENTIONED 0ERGOLESI COMPRISED THE üRST ROUND 2OPARTZlS 0IġCE EN -I "ÀMOL -INEUR 3ULEKlS k6OX 'ABRIELIl 3ONATA AND A NEW WORK BY )VAN +URZ WHICH HAD BEEN COMMISSIONED BY THE &ESTIVAL FORMED

A "RITISH MUSICIAN AND EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPATING IN THESE COMPETITIONS ) WAS CONVINCED THERE WAS MUCH TO GAIN

DESPITE THE DAUNTING TIME CONSTRAINTS 4HE SIX WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE COMPETITION ARE A BIT OF A BLUR BUT ) LEARNT MORE IN THIS PERIOD THAN ANY OTHER ) CAN REMEMBER ) WANT TO SHARE SOME OF THESE PRACTICE TECHNIQUES WITH YOU AS ) CAN HONESTLY SAY THAT THEY MADE POSSIBLE THAT WHICH ) INITIALLY FEARED WAS NOT AND HAVE SHAPED MY OUTLOOK AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS PRACTICE EVER SINCE 4HE üRST MAJOR OBSTACLE TO CROSS WAS EXACTLY HOW TO üT THE MANY HOURS OF

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INTONATIONS

PRACTISE AROUND THE 20/ SCHEDULE

WHICH CAN BE INTENSE AT THE BEST OF TIMES ) SOLVED THIS BY ENSURING THAT ALL OF MY PRACTICE DURING THE üRST TWO WEEKS WAS DEVOID OF ANY DYNAMICS

IN FACT IT NEVER WENT ABOVE MEZZO PIANO 4HIS ALLOWED ME TO DRASTICALLY INCREASE ITS DURATION SOMETHING NECESSARY GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF NEW MUSIC ) HAD TO LEARN WHILE NOT BEING TOO DETRIMENTAL PHYSICALLY ALLOWING ME TO FULüL MY WORK COMMITMENTS 5NTIL ) COULD PLAY ALL THE MUSIC WITHIN THIS DYNAMIC ) DID NOT MOVE ON 4HERE WAS A PERIOD DURING THE SUMMER OF MY üRST YEAR AT +INGlS #OLLEGE ,ONDON WHEN ) PRACTISED A SIMILAR AMOUNT BETWEEN üVE AND SIX HOURS PER DAY BUT WITHOUT SUCH A PLANNED FOCUSED APPROACH 7HILE THIS WAS STILL OF GREAT BENEüT ) AM CERTAIN ) DID NOT REAP AT THAT TIME

ALL THE POTENTIAL SUCH AN INTENSIVE PRACTICE PERIOD HOLDS -Y SECOND PIECE OF ADVICE TO ANYONE WISHING TO BRUSH UP ON HIS OR HER PRACTICE TECHNIQUE IS TO TRUST YOUR PLANNING 7HEN ) CAME ACROSS AN ESPECIALLY DIFüCULT PASSAGE SUCH AS THE END OF THE 2OPARTZ ) WOULD START AT A MANAGEABLE TEMPO AND üGURE OUT EXACTLY WHERE ) WOULD NEED TO BE BY THE END OF EVERY WEEK IN ORDER TO HAVE THE PASSAGE AT THE REQUIRED TEMPO üVE WEEKS LATER 4HE DISCIPLINE REQUIRED TO MAINTAIN AND TRUST SUCH A PRACTICE PLAN PUSHED ME AND MY NEIGHBOURS TO THE LIMIT ) CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW HOURS SPENT IN THIS WAY PRACTISING ANALYSING AND EVALUATING PAID OFF IN THE LONG RUN 4O AID THIS PROCESS ) PURCHASED A SMALL MANUSCRIPT BOOK RE COMPOSED ARRANGED THESE AND OTHER AWKWARD PASSAGES SIMPLIüED THEM AND WORKED THEM INTO A NEW WARM UP ) TRIED TO TICK ALL THE BOXES THAT ANY GOOD WARM UP SHOULD COVER THUS ENSURING THAT EVERY TIME ) PICKED UP THE TROMBONE ) WAS DOING SOMETHING POSITIVE TOWARDS THE COMPETITION 4HIS HOWEVER

CREATED A FURTHER PROBLEM THAT OF BALANCING SOLO AND ORCHESTRAL PLAYING 4HE FACILITY AND ČEXIBILITY REQUIRED TO PLAY MUCH OF THE SOLO REPERTOIRE IS FAR REMOVED FROM THE EVERYDAY WORK OF THE ORCHESTRAL TROMBONIST WHERE FOR EXAMPLE A MUCH WIDER SOUND IS MORE HIGHLY VALUED $URING THIS PERIOD ) REMEMBER SPENDING TWO DAYS WITH THE 20/ REHEARSING AND PERFORMING 2ESPIGHIlS &OUNTAINS OF 2OME UNDER +IRILL +ARABITS IN THE 2OYAL &ESTIVAL (ALL *UST TWO DAYS OF MAKING A WIDE

ORCHESTRAL SOUND PUT ME BACK AT LEAST FOUR TO üVE DAYS kSOLOISTICALLYl )T WAS AS IF MY EMBOUCHURE WAS SO COMPLETELY FOCUSSED ON THE SOUND OF EACH NOTE AND PHRASE THAT ANY LEAPS IN REGISTER WERE INCREDIBLY DIFüCULT TO ACHIEVE )T TOOK A FURTHER TWO DAYS OF PRACTICE BEFORE THE PREVIOUSLY ASCERTAINED FACILITY RETURNED 4O MY MIND THE DEDICATION OF PLAYERS SUCH AS )AN "OUSüELD AND *OSEPH !LESSI IS ALL THE MORE STAGGERING THEY SEEM CONSTANTLY ABLE TO WALK THIS üNE LINE EFFORTLESSLY 4HIS LEFT A FEW HOURS EVERY DAY WHEN ) WAS TRAVELLING OR HAVING DINNER DURING WHICH TROMBONE PRACTICE WAS NOT POSSIBLE 4HESE WERE SPENT LISTENING TO THE LIKES OF *ÍRGEN VAN 2IJEN #HRISTIAN ,INDBERG AND "RANIMIR 3LOKAR 4HE COLOURS THEY CREATE ARE AT TIMES FAR REMOVED FROM THOSE TYPICAL TO THE "RITISH ORCHESTRAL SCHOOL OF PLAYING 4O MY MIND THE FACT THAT ) WAS GOING TO BE PLAYING TO A %UROPEAN JUDGING PANEL NECESSITATED THE DEVELOPMENT AND ASSIMILATION OF CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE GREAT PLAYERS INTO MY OWN PLAYING ESPECIALLY WITH REGARD TO STYLE AND USE OF VIBRATO WHILE STILL MAINTAINING THE CORE SOUND AND LEGATO SO FUNDAMENTAL TO MY OWN MUSICAL IDENTITY 4O SEE THE WORKINGS OF AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION WAS VERY INTERESTING 4HERE WAS A GROUP OF PLAYERS WHO SPEND TIME EVERY YEAR PLAYING THE COMPETITION CIRCUIT THEY ALL KNOW EACH OTHER MANY OF THE PANEL AND HAD STRONG PRE COMPETITION EXPECTATIONS AS TO WHO WOULD PROCEED TO THE SECOND ROUND

THE THIRD ROUND AND EVEN WIN THE WHOLE COMPETITION &OR MY PART ) MADE IT TO THE SECOND ROUND BUT FELL SHORT OF THE üNAL

COMING EIGHTH OVERALL ) WAS A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED THERE WAS SOME GOOD PLAYING AND CLEARLY SOME VERY üNE PLAYERS BUT NOTHING ) HEARD THAT WEEK HAD BLOWN ME AWAY )N FACT MUCH OF IT HAD SOUNDED RATHER CALCULATED AND MEASURED WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF SPONTANEITY )T WAS AS THOUGH COMPETITORS WERE AFRAID TO IMPART TOO MUCH OF THEMSELVES INTO THEIR PERFORMANCE FOR FEAR THAT IT WOULD BE JUDGED AS BEING kWRONGl #RUCIALLY

IT SEEMS SOME PLAYERS KNEW HOW THE JUDGES WOULD MARK EXACTLY WHAT THEY WOULD GAIN AND LOSE POINTS FOR AND TICKED THE BOXES ACCORDINGLY )T STRUCK ME AS HIGHLY UNFULüLLING TO

BE MUSICALLY SHACKLED IN THIS WAY BY CONVENTION !FTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SECOND ROUND RESULTS ) MANAGED TO GAIN SOME FEEDBACK FROM CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE JURY 7HILE THIS WAS GENERALLY POSITIVE IT WAS MIXED WITH SOME STRANGE COMMENTS 0LAYING NEARLY ALL THE MUSIC FROM MEMORY WENT DOWN VERY WELL AND IT SEEMS THAT THEY WERE IMPRESSED THAT ) HAD FOUND SUCH A DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION OF THE +URZ ) WENT FOR A MUCH LIGHTER STYLE THINK .ELSON 2IDDLE "OBBY -C&ERRIN APPLAUDED ME FOR IT AND YET TOOK MARKS OFF BECAUSE IT HAD NOT CONFORMED TO THEIR MORE TRADITIONAL READING OF THE PIECE 4O QUOTE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL "RITISH TROMBONE PLAYER OF OUR GENERATION kYOU HAVE GROWN UP WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT mDIFFERENT IS INTERESTINGn ;POSSIBLY= WHAT YOU ENCOUNTERED WAS mDIFFERENT IS WRONGnl /NE JUDGE SIMPLY SAID THE PIECE WAS kTOO JAZZYl WHILE ANOTHER CALLED ME A kVISIONARYl )T SEEMS ) HAD DIVIDED OPINION IN WHICH ) BELIEVE THERE TO BE MUCH MERIT 4HERE WERE ALSO COMMENTS WHICH TO THIS DAY ) üND HARD TO UNDERSTAND &OR INSTANCE THE END OF THE 2OPARTZ WAS kTOO FASTl )T IS MARKED !LLEGRO MOLTO NOT -ODERATO STRINGENDO AS ) HEARD COUNTLESS TIMES THAT DAY 3URELY IT HAS TO BE PLAYED AS ONE COMPLETE PHRASE 4AKING A BREATH BEFORE THE END IS MUSICALLY CRIMINAL )T HAS BEEN DIFüCULT TO DRAW ANY CONCLUSIONS FROM THE REMARKS THAT ) RECEIVED THAT NIGHT 7ITH HINDSIGHT

THERE ARE CERTAIN ASPECTS ) WOULD DO DIFFERENTLY GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE

BUT NOT A HUGE AMOUNT AND HAPPILY THERE WERE ALSO MOMENTS ) DOUBT ) COULD REPLICATE IN MY OWN PRACTICE ROOM LET ALONE ON AN INTERNATIONAL STAGE ,IKEWISE LESSONS COULD NOT BE GLEANED FROM HEARING THE üNAL AS NO ONE WON THE üRST PRIZE NOR HAVE THEY SINCE 4HIS MERELY PROVES THAT WINNING A COMPETITION SUCH AS THIS BY NO MEANS GUARANTEES A CAREER AS A SOLOIST 7HAT MATTERS IS THAT YOU ARE AN ARTIST THAT PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE TROMBONE WORLD RESPECT AND WANT TO HEAR 0ERSONALLY MY CLOSURE COMES FROM REALISING THAT AN ENDEAVOUR SUCH AS THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE JOURNEY YOU TAKE UP TO THE COMPETITION 4HE ATTITUDE DEVELOPED AND THE APPLICATION TO THE PRACTICE REQUIRED TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF A PROJECT SUCH AS THIS ARE THE REAL POSITIVES

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MEET THE REPS

MEET TH "43 3OUTHWEST 2EP 4ONY %VANS

"43 6ICE 0RESIDENT #AROL *ARVIS

4ONY üRST BEGAN PLAYING IN THE BRASS BANDS OF THE 2HONDDA VALLEY IN 3OUTH 7ALES !T GRAMMAR SCHOOL HE WAS INČUENCED BY $ANNY (ANNABY THE PRINCIPAL TROMBONIST OF THE ""# 7ELSH /RCHESTRA $URING THIS TIME

HE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE 'LAMORGAN 9OUTH /RCHESTRA THE .ATIONAL 9OUTH /RCHESTRA OF 7ALES AND THE .ATIONAL 9OUTH "RASS "AND OF 'REAT "RITAIN 4HE 'LAMORGAN 9OUTH /RCHESTRA SECTION WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL AND CONSISTED OF 4REVOR (ERBERT

"RIAN 2ABY *OHN (ENDY #OLIN 'UMMER AND 4ONY ALL BECAME PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS ,EAVING SCHOOL HE ENTERED THE 7ELSH #OLLEGE OF -USIC WHERE HE STUDIED WITH *OHN *ENKINS THE CO PRINCIPAL TROMBONE IN THE ""# 7ELSH /RCHESTRA TAKING PIANO AND CLASSICAL GUITAR AS SECOND STUDIES !FTER GRADUATION HE FREELANCED IN #ARDIFF FOR A WHILE BEFORE BEING HEADHUNTED BY -AJOR !RTHUR +ENNEY FOR THE POSITION OF PRINCIPAL TROMBONE IN (ER -AJESTYlS "AND OF THE 7ELSH 'UARDS 4ONY COMMENTS m4HIS PERIOD WAS A MASSIVE LEARNING CURVE FOR ME HAVING TO PLAY ALL STYLES OF MUSIC WELL AND ON DEMAND A FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE PLAYING ALL OVER THE WORLD n /N LEAVING THE !RMY 4ONY AGAIN FREELANCED IN ,ONDON FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS mWORK WAS PLENTIFUL IN THE S IN THE MANY RECORDING STUDIOS AND IN MUSICAL THEATREn (E CONTINUED m) BECAME TIRED OF ,ONDON AND TOOK UP AN ADVISORY POST IN $EVON WITH THE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC TEAM AND AT THE SAME TIME OPENED A MUSIC SHOP ) WORKED IN $EVON FOR FOUR YEARS AND THEN TOOK UP A POST AS 0ROFESSOR OF 4ROMBONE AND 4UBA AT $ARTINGTON #OLLEGE OF !RTS 3INCE THEN ) HAVE BEEN A SEMI PRO PLAYER WORKING AROUND THE 7EST #OUNTRY RUNNING MY OWN MUSIC SCHOOL AND STILL TEACHING AT THREE PRIMARY SCHOOLS ) GAINED A "! IN "AND 3TUDIES FROM 3HEFüELD 5NIVERSITY IN AND A $OCTORATE IN -USIC %DUCATION FROM "ELFORD 5NIVERSITY IN ) HAVE HAD SIX BRASS RELATED WORKS PUBLISHED BY 3PARTAN 0RESS n 0RESENTLY 4ONY IS A PARTNER IN THE "RAVURA 4ROMBONE #OMPANY WITH HIS LIFE LONG FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE TROMBONIST 0AUL #OKER

TOGETHER WITH HIS WIFE ,INDA 4HEY RUN AN ONLINE EBAY SHOP CALLED #RACKERJACK -USIC 4ONY ALSO PLAYS WITH THE $AVE (ANKIN "IG "AND AND THE "RAVURA 4ROMBONE 1UARTET 3O AFTER YEARS OF PLAYING AND TEACHING

HE IS STILL HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS AND LONG MAY IT CONTINUE

#AROL *ARVIS IS A MUCH IN DEMAND FREELANCE TROMBONIST WHO WORKS IN ALL üELDS OF THE PROFESSION 4OURING ON TROMBONE

KEYBOARDS AND BACKING VOCALS WITH 3EAL

#AROL CAN ALSO BE FOUND WORKING WITH INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ENSEMBLES RANGING FROM THE ,ONDON 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA TO THE 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA OF )NDIA AS WELL AS ARTISTS SUCH AS 3TING AND "ON *OVI (ER SESSION WORK CAN BE HEARD ON A NUMBER OF COMMERCIAL SOUNDTRACKS FEATURE üLMS

ADVERTISEMENTS JINGLES AND ALBUMS AND HER POP WORK HAS APPEARED IN THE 4OP 5+ CHARTS SEVERAL TIMES (ER RECENT 46 WORK HAS INCLUDED RECORDING A ""# $OCTOR 7HO SOUNDTRACK THE PRESTIGIOUS 2OYAL 6ARIETY 0ERFORMANCE WORKING WITH THE 3UGABABES AND üXING AND PERFORMING IN THE HOUSE BAND ON THE 46 SERIES #HRIS -OYLESl 1UIZ .IGHT #AROL ALSO PERFORMS REGULARLY IN ,ONDONlS 7EST %ND #AROL HAS GAINED MANY AWARDS INCLUDING MAJOR SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE 5+ AND 53! 3HE HAS BEEN PART OF AUDITION PANELS JUDGING INTERNATIONAL TROMBONE COMPETITIONS ON MANY OCCASIONS AROUND THE GLOBE 3HE IS WELL KNOWN FOR COACHING AND HAS GIVEN MASTERCLASSES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

INCLUDING AT ,UCERNE #ONSERVATOIRE IN 3WITZERLAND 5NIVERSITY OF #ALIFORNIA IN ,OS !NGELES -EXICO #ITY 5NIVERSITY AND SHE WAS ALSO A TUTOR IN ,IMA 0ERU #AROL IS 0ROFESSOR OF 4ROMBONE AT 4RINITY #OLLEGE OF -USIC IN ,ONDON !S WELL AS PERFORMING AND TEACHING #AROL HAS WRITTEN ORCHESTRAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR 3EALlS PERFORMANCES MOST NOTABLY WITH THE 3AN &RANCISCO 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA AND SHE ARRANGES THE BRASS PARTS FOR 3EALlS INTERNATIONAL TOURS 3HE WAS PART OF THE PRODUCTION TEAM ON A %UROVISION 3ONG #ONTEST ENTRY REPRESENTING THE 5+ HAS CO ORCHESTRATED TRACKS FOR #ORINNE "AILEY 2AElS LATEST ALBUM 4HE 3EA AND CONTRACTED THE ORCHESTRA FOR 3TINGlS %UROPEAN TOUR AND $6$ RECORDING )F /N A 7INTERlS .IGHT #AROL RECORDED HER DEBUT SOLO ALBUM

3MILE AT 0INEWOOD 3TUDIOS LAST YEAR WHICH REACHED THE PENULTIMATE ROUND OF THE RD !NNUAL 'RAMMY !WARDS )T IS SOLD FOR THE BENEüT OF -ACMILLAN #ANCER 3UPPORT AND IS AVAILABLE FROM WWW CAROLJARVIS COM

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MEET THE REPS

HE REPS "43 7ELSH 2EP !RLENE -AC&ARLANE !RLENE BEGAN PLAYING THE TROMBONE AT THE AGE OF THROUGH HER LOCAL BRASS BAND AND IN JOINED THE BRASS DEPARTMENT OF THE 23!-$ *UNIOR !CADEMY !S A YOUNGSTER SHE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE .ATIONAL 9OUTH /RCHESTRA OF 3COTLAND WHERE SHE SPENT FOUR HAPPY EVENTFUL YEARS 4HROUGHOUT HER YOUTH SHE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE 7EST ,OTHIAN 3CHOOLS "RASS "AND !RLENE WENT ON TO STUDY AT THE 2OYAL 3COTTISH !CADEMY OF -USIC AND $RAMA UNDER +EVIN 4HOMSON AND ,ANCE 'REEN WHERE SHE GRADUATED WITH A &IRST #LASS (ONOURS "-US $EGREE IN 0ERFORMANCE 3HE OBTAINED A 0OSTGRADUATE $IPLOMA IN 0ERFORMANCE WITH $ISTINCTION IN AND WAS AWARDED A -ASTERS IN -USIC WITH $ISTINCTION IN

Arlene MacFarlane

4HROUGHOUT !RLENElS ACADEMIC STUDIES SHE HAS BEEN THE RECIPIENT OF SEVERAL AWARDS )N

SHE WON THE 'OVERNORSl 2ECITAL 0RIZE FOR "RASS THE 0ROFESSOR #HARLES ,EGGETT !WARD FROM THE -USICIANS "ENEVOLENT &UND IN AND IN THE -USICIANS "ENEVOLENT &UND %DUCATION !WARD THE #OUNTESS OF -UNSTER -USICAL 4RUST AND THE #AIRD 4RUST !WARD )N SHE WAS ALSO AWARDED THE $EWAR !RTS !WARD !RLENElS PROFESSIONAL WORK INCLUDES APPEARANCES WITH THE 2OYAL 3COTTISH .ATIONAL /RCHESTRA ""# 3COTTISH 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA 3COTTISH #HAMBER /RCHESTRA

3COTTISH /PERA 24% 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA

THE 0HILHARMONIA /RCHESTRA AND THE 2OYAL 0HILHARMONIC /RCHESTRA )N ADDITION TO HER ORCHESTRAL WORK !RLENE HAS APPEARED WITH SEVERAL PRESTIGIOUS CHAMBER GROUPS SUCH AS 4HE 'OLDEN 3ECTION 0ARAGON %NSEMBLE

&INE !RTS "RASS AND "ONES !PART 3HE IS ALSO A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE AWARD WINNING ENSEMBLE 4HISTLE "RASS WHICH WAS FORMED IN

!RLENE WAS APPOINTED SUB PRINCIPAL TROMBONE OF THE ""# .ATIONAL /RCHESTRA OF 7ALES IN !S WELL AS HER ORCHESTRAL WORK IN #ARDIFF SHE IS REGULARLY INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY MUSIC PROJECTS AROUND 7ALES AND 3COTLAND AND ENJOYS TEACHING LOCALLY

%AST !NGLIA 2EP AND #HAIRMAN OF THE %XECUTIVE "OARD "EN "OUZAN "EN "OUZAN STUDIED BASS TROMBONE AT THE 2OYAL #OLLEGE OF -USIC UNDER 0ETER (ARVEY "EFORE STUDYING AT THE 2#- HE PLAYED IN THE .ATIONAL #HILDRENlS /RCHESTRA .ATIONAL #HILDRENlS 7IND /RCHESTRA WITH WHICH HE PLAYED THE 2IMSKY +ORSAKOV 4ROMBONE #ONCERTO AND THE .ATIONAL 9OUTH /RCHESTRA 7HILE AT THE 2#- AND ALSO AFTERWARDS HE PLAYED WITH THE .ATIONAL 9OUTH *AZZ /RCHESTRA WHERE HE GAINED HIS LOVE OF BIG BANDS ALTHOUGH HIS IMPROVISATION NEVER REALLY IMPROVED 4HIS WAS NOT THE BANDlS FAULT BUT TOTALLY "ENlS IT WOULD SEEM THAT SOME BASS TROMBONISTS CAN UNFORTUNATELY GET AWAY WITH TOO MUCH "EN HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE %XECUTIVE "OARD OF THE "43 SINCE /CTOBER (E HAS ALSO BEEN THE %AST !NGLIA 2EPRESENTATIVE SINCE ORGANISING AN ANNUAL TROMBONE DAY AT /UNDLE 3CHOOL WHERE HE IS CURRENTLY THE LOW BRASS TEACHER AT BOTH THE *UNIOR AND 3ENIOR 3CHOOLS "EN STARTED HIS TEACHING CAREER WITH -USICALE ,TD IN (ARPENDEN !T ONE POINT

HE WAS TEACHING PUPILS INDIVIDUALLY FOR OR MINUTES EACH AT SCHOOLS OVER DAYS 4HIS ALSO INCLUDED CONDUCTING THREE OF -USICALElS BANDS AS WELL 4HIS BECAME TOO DEMANDING WHEN HE STARTED AT /UNDLE 3CHOOL SO HE NOW TEACHES ONE EVENING A WEEK AT THEIR -USIC 3CHOOL AND AT ONE LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOL (E IS CURRENTLY A BRASS TUTOR ON THREE OF THEIR NATIONWIDE SUMMER MUSIC COURSES AND HAS BEEN INVITED TO TUTOR ON THE .ATIONAL #HILDRENlS 7IND 3INFONIA AND .ATIONAL #HILDRENlS 7IND /RCHESTRA %ASTER COURSES RUN BY THE FOUNDERS AND OWNERS OF -USICALE $AVID AND 'ILL *OHNSTON )N 3EPTEMBER HE STARTED TEACHING FOR (ERTFORDSHIRE -USIC 3ERVICE DELIVERING 7IDER /PPORTUNITIES LESSONS FOR TWO SCHOOLS AND PLAYING WITH THE 3ERVICElS BRASS QUINTET (E TEACHES PRIVATELY WITHIN THE AREA HE LIVES IN NEAR 2OYSTON (ERTFORDSHIRE AND TRIES TO KEEP UP A FREELANCE PLAYING LIFE 5NFORTUNATELY THE LATTER IS DIFüCULT TO JUGGLE WITH ALL THE TEACHING COMMITMENTS BUT IS VERY MUCH ENJOYED WHEN MANAGED

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COMPOSER’S CORNER

Gavin Higgins !S A COMPOSER WHO GREW UP SURROUNDED

BY BRASS BANDS AND WHO NOW PRIMARILY WRITES FOR kCLASSICALl ORCHESTRAS AND ENSEMBLES ) üND IT CURIOUS TO NOTE HOW BRASS BAND MUSIC IS OFTEN GROUPED INTO TWO CATEGORIES LIGHT MUSIC OR kCONCERT MUSICl AND SERIOUS MUSIC OR kTEST PIECEl 4HIS CATEGORISATION IS ) FEAR SOMEWHAT DECEPTIVE AND MISLEADING IT SEEMS TO IMPLY THAT kCONCERT MUSICl WARRANTS LESS ATTENTION THAN kSERIOUS MUSICl OR THAT kTEST PIECESl ARE OF A SUPERIOR QUALITY TO kLIGHT MUSICl WHICH AS ANY DISCERNING LISTENER WILL KNOW IS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE ) WILL HAPPILY CONCEDE THAT THE TWO TROMBONE SOLOS WITH BAND ACCOMPANIMENT ) HAVE WRITTEN BOTH FALL INTO THE kLIGHT MUSICl CAMP (OWEVER ) WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND CARE TAKEN OVER THEIR COMPOSITION WAS NO LESS THAN ) WOULD GIVE FOR A PIECE OF SERIOUS MUSIC AND ) BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE OF ANY RESPECTABLE COMPOSER WRITING IN THIS STYLE THESE ARE PIECES CONTAINING STRONG MELODIES AND ATTRACTIVE ORCHESTRATIONS BUT HAVE AT THEIR CORE DARK AND ABSURD THEMES 4ANGO WAS WRITTEN FOR "RETT "AKER AND WAS RECENTLY RECORDED ON HIS #$

2ATHAMATAZ WITH "LACK $YKE "AND -Y INTEREST IN DANCE HAS INÄŒUENCED MANY OF MY COMPOSITIONS SOME LITERALLY GLEANING INSPIRATION FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF DANCE MUSIC AND OTHERS DRAWING ON MORE TENUOUS LINKS THAT NEVERTHELESS UNDERPIN MUCH OF RHYTHMIC MATERIAL ) WRITE 4ANGO WAS A CHANCE TO LET MY HAIR DOWN WHILST CONTINUING TO EXPLORE THESE PARTICULAR INTERESTS 4HE MAIN MATERIAL IN THE MUSIC CAME FROM THE CENTRAL MOVEMENT OF A WORK ) WROTE FOR -ARK 3IMPSON ""# 9OUNG -USICIAN OF THE 9EAR 4HREE "ROKEN ,OVE 3ONGS RECENTLY RECORDED BY .-# 4HIS THREE MOVEMENT COMPOSITION IS A SET OF VIVIDLY CONTRASTING PIECES THAT ARE LINKED DRAMATICALLY EACH EXPLORING AN ALTERNATIVE SIDE TO LOVE 4HE WORK IS IF YOU LIKE A JOURNEY THROUGH A FAILED RELATIONSHIP A MODERN DAY LOVE STORY WITHOUT A FAIRY TALE ENDING 4HE SECOND MOVEMENT OF "ROKEN ,OVE 3ONGS IS MARKED TANGO AND ) THOUGHT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO EXPAND ON SOME OF THIS MATERIAL IN TURN CREATING A SHOWPIECE FOR TROMBONE 7ITH 4ANGO ) WANTED TO TRY TO DECONSTRUCT THE PRECONCEPTIONS OF WHAT A TANGO IS AND DOES WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF A kLIGHTl CONCERT WORK AND SO THE SOMEWHAT PRAGMATIC OPENING

TANGO THEME GRADUALLY DESCENDS INTO THE WORLD OF BACKSTREET JAZZ BARS VAUDEVILLE SHOWBIZ AND EVEN A TOUCH OF "ROADWAY SPARKLE &REAKS WRITTEN FOR ,ISA 3ARASINI IS A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT KETTLE OF üSH 4O DATE

ITlS MY ONLY ATTEMPT AT WRITING A PIECE THAT EVEN RESEMBLES PROGRAMME MUSIC IN THAT ITS NARRATIVE LOOSELY FOLLOWS THAT OF THE üLM FROM WHICH ) DREW INSPIRATION &REAKS IS A BLACK AND WHITE CULT CLASSIC THAT WAS BANNED SOON AFTER ITS INITIAL RELEASE DUE TO ITS CONTROVERSIAL MORALITY ISSUES AND LEAD CHARACTERS WHO WERE REAL LIFE SIDESHOW kFREAKSl 4OD "ROWNING

THE üLMlS DIRECTOR WAS A FAMOUS AND PROLIüC SILENT MOVIEMAKER AND THE RELEASE OF &REAKS ONE OF THE üRST kTALKIESl EVER MADE LED TO THE END OF "ROWNINGlS CAREER 4ODAY PERHAPS THE MOVIE IS LESS SHOCKING THAN WHEN IT WAS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED IN BUT THE PLOT IS STILL DARK AND REMAINS ICONIC AND DISTURBING 2ECENTLY SELECTED FOR THE .ATIONAL &ILM 2EGISTRYlS ARCHIVE OF CINEMATIC TREASURES

THIS MOVIE IS SURE TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE THINGS TO HAVE EVER COME OUT OF (OLLYWOOD )N THE üLM THE LEAD ROLE IS PLAYED BY A SIDESHOW DWARF WHO üNDS HIMSELF INFATUATED WITH #LEOPATRA A BEAUTIFUL YET CORRUPT TRAPEZE ARTIST /N DISCOVERING THAT THE DWARF IS DUE TO INHERIT AN ENORMOUS FORTUNE #LEOPATRA HATCHES A PLAN TO MARRY AND KILL HIM TAKING HIS MONEY FOR HERSELF 4HE TWO EVENTUALLY MARRY AND THE kFREAKSl HOLD A WEDDING PARTY THAT

AFTER SOME ALCOHOLIC LUBRICATION ESCALATES OUT OF CONTROL #LEOPATRA SOON SHOWS HER TRUE COLOURS TAUNTING AND MOCKING THE DWARF AND HIS SIDESHOW COMRADES 4HE kFREAKSl SOON UNRAVEL #LEOPATRAlS PLAN AND INÄŒICT THEIR TERRIBLE REVENGE HUNTING HER DOWN CUTTING HER UP AND TURNING HER INTO A FREAK THE VERY THING SHE ABUSED AND RIDICULED 4HIS DARK TALE SHOWS

IN FANTASTIC (OLLYWOOD STYLE THE TRUE FREAKS OF THE üLM ARE NOT THE SIDESHOW PERFORMERS BUT THE PEOPLE WHO MOCK AND TORTURE THEM 7HEN WRITING THIS OUTRAGEOUS SOLO ) WANTED TO TRY TO CREATE AN ABSURD SOUNDSCAPE AN AURAL PARTNER TO THIS CURIOUS AND UNIQUE (OLLYWOOD kCARNIVALl AND SO THE PIECE VISITS A NUMBER DIFFERENT SOUND WORLDS WALTZES JAZZ +LEZMER

CIRCUS MARCHES EVEN A LITTLE TOUCH OF $ANNY %LFMAN AND 'EORGE 'ERSHWIN THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE !FTER A

SERIES OF SWANEE WHISTLES MOUTH SIRENS AND KAZOOS THE PIECE CLIMAXES IN A LITERAL kSCREAMl FROM THE BAND A RIDICULOUSLY CAMP JOURNEY THROUGH A VERY BIZARRE WORLD !LTHOUGH SOME MIGHT CALL THIS MUSIC kACCESSIBLEl A TERM THAT üLLS ME WITH LOATHING ) WOULD ARGUE THAT THESE PIECES SIMPLY CONTAIN MEMORABLE AND FAMILIAR MUSICAL MATERIAL THAT WE THE AUDIENCE HAVE BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO 7ITH MUCH OF THE MATERIAL IN THE PIECES ) HAVE DRAWN INSPIRATION FROM POP MUSIC TANGOS WALTZES MARCHES WHICH ARE IN TURN EVOLUTIONARY STRAINS OF A COMMON ANCESTOR !MERICAN JAZZ MUSIC )N THE WEST WE HAVE BEEN SURROUNDED BY THESE KINDS OF MELODIES RHYTHMS AND MUSICAL GENRES OUR WHOLE LIFE AND AS A RESULT WE ARE NOW COMPLETELY ACCLIMATISED TO THEIR FOOT TAPPING EFFECTS k!CCESSIBLEl SEEMS TO SUGGEST kEASYl OR kEASY LISTENINGl WHICH ) FEEL TOTALLY UNDERMINES THE CRAFT OF THE COMPOSER AND THE SKILL OF THE LISTENER )T SEEMS TO SUGGEST A KIND OF VACUOUS MUSIC THAT WASHES OVER THE LISTENER REQUIRING NO COMMITMENT AND IS QUICKLY FORGOTTEN ) PERSONALLY DONlT WANT MUSIC TO WASH OVER ME ) WANT TO BE EXCITED AND MOVED AND INVOLVED IN THE JOURNEY AND TO WRITE THIS TYPE OF MUSIC REQUIRES A CERTAIN SKILL ) THINK ITlS INCREDIBLY DIFüCULT TO WRITE SUCCESSFUL kLIGHT MUSICl AND ) AM IN GREAT ADMIRATION OF THOSE WHO DO IT WELL TO DO THIS WITHOUT LOSING ONElS INTEGRITY IS A CHALLENGE BUT THEN AGAIN WHO SAID WRITING ANY KIND OF MUSIC TO A HIGH STANDARD WAS EVER GOING TO BE EASY

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IN HARMONY

! "IT ON THE 3LIDE .OTTINGHAMSHIRElS NEW TROMBONE QUARTET -AKING ITS DEBUT PERFORMANCE AT THE "RITISH 4ROMBONE 3OCIETY DAY ON *ANUARY AT 3ALFORD WAS A NEW TROMBONE QUARTET BASED IN .OTTINGHAMSHIRE WHICH GAVE AN INFORMED EXCERPTS RECITAL TO THE VISITORS AT 0EEL (ALL ! "IT ON THE 3LIDE FEATURES A GROUP OF TROMBONISTS JOINED TOGETHER BY THEIR LOVE OF THE INSTRUMENT AND A DESIRE TO STEP AWAY FROM THEIR CURRENT COMFORT ZONES AND EXPLORE THE MANY STYLES OF REPERTOIRE AVAILABLE TO TROMBONE QUARTETS )NITIALLY

THIS WAS FOR SELF INTEREST BUT SOON LED TO A DESIRE TO RUN OUT THE EARLY RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC 4HE PLAYERS ARE #LAIRE 4AYLOR 2ICHARD 7ALKER *AMES 3TRETTON AND 2ICHARD "OND !LL ARE EXPERIENCED TROMBONISTS IN

THEIR OWN RIGHT AND REMARKABLY ALL LIVE WITHIN A üVE MILE RADIUS OF EACH OTHER !

CHANCE MEETING OF THE FOUR OVER A PINT OR TWO OF EXCEPTIONAL REAL ALE LED TO THE FORMATION OF THE GROUP AS A REHEARSAL GROUP 4HE PLAYERS THEMSELVES COME FROM A SURPRISINGLY VARIED BACKGROUND AND EACH BRINGS THEIR OWN SKILL SET TO THE ENSEMBLE #LAIRE IS A GRADUATE OF THE "IRMINGHAM #ONSERVATOIRE AND HAS EXTENSIVE ORCHESTRAL AND BRASS BAND EXPERIENCE 2ICHARD 7ALKER IS CURRENTLY STUDYING FOR HIS -! IN 0ERFORMANCE AT 3ALFORD 5NIVERSITY AND PLAYS REGULARLY WITH DIFFERENT CHAMBER GROUPS AND BRASS BANDS *AMES IS THE GROUPlS kRINGERl AS HE STUDIED TRUMPET AT 4RINITY (E IS A MULTI INSTRUMENTALIST AND THE TROMBONE IS ONE OF MANY THAT HE CAN PLAY 2ICHARD "OND

IS THE GROUPlS BASS TROMBONIST AND HAS TOURED PROFESSIONALLY WITH BANDS SUCH AS THE -EMPHIS "ELLE /RCHESTRA 4HE AIM OF THE GROUP IS SIMPLE TO DEMONSTRATE A WORK IN PROGRESS TO ASPIRING QUARTETS !S THE GROUP WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH THE REPERTOIRE IT AIMS TO SHOW THAT AFTER A FEW REHEARSALS YOU CAN BE REASONABLY PROüCIENT IN CAREFULLY SELECTED PIECES 4HE MUSIC THAT WAS CHOSEN TO PERFORM AT THE "43 $AY IN 3ALFORD WAS INTENDED TO SHOW INDIVIDUAL MOVEMENTS OF CONTRASTING STYLES AND HOW THAT HELPS ENSEMBLE BALANCE AND INTONATION &OR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ! "IT ON THE 3LIDE CONTACT 2ICHARD 7ALKER ON OR RICHWALKER VIRGIN NET

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TROMBONIST’S ISLAND DISCS

4ROMBONISTlS )SLAND $ISCS $UNCAN 7ILSON

"EING A TROMBONIST BASS TRUMPETER

EUPHONIUMIST AND BRASS BAND CONDUCTOR

) HAVE BECOME SOMETHING OF A *ACK OF ALL TRADES 4HIS IS NO BAD THING AND CERTAINLY LENDS ITSELF TO QUITE A VARIED EXISTENCE (OWEVER ) AM VERY UNLIKELY EVER TO ACHIEVE THE FAME AND STARDOM REQUIRED TO FEATURE AS A GUEST ON 2ADIO 4HE "43 MAGAZINElS VERY OWN $ESERT )SLAND $ISCS IS THE CLOSEST ) WILL EVER GET SO YOU WILL FORGIVE ME FOR RELISHING EVERY MINUTE -Y OWN CHOICES OF MUSIC REÄŒECT NOT ONLY RECORDINGS THAT HAVE INÄŒUENCED MY DECISION TO BECOME A MUSICIAN BUT ALSO MUSIC ) ENJOY AWAY FROM THE TROMBONE ) HAVE LISTED MY CHOICES IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

PLAYING FROM PIANIST "ILL %VANS 4HIS WAS THE ONLY CASSETTE TAPE ) ACTUALLY WORE OUT IN MY TEENAGE YEARS 'OTTERDAMMERUNG 7AGNERlS FOURTH INSTALMENT OF THE 2ING CYCLE 4HE üNAL SCENE WHERE "RUNNHILDE LEAPS INTO 3EIGFRIEDlS FUNERAL PYRE IS JUST AWE INSPIRING FOR ME %LGAR 3YMPHONY .O IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE PIECES TO PLAY AND TO LISTEN TO %LGAR CAN BE A MIXED BAG AT TIMES BUT HE WAS SPOT ON WITH HIS üRST SYMPHONY (E GIVES A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW TO WRITE A PURELY k%NGLISHl SYMPHONY UNDERSTATED

SLIGHTLY PO FACED BUT NEVER POMPOUS 'EORGE "UTTERWORTH 3ONGS FROM !

3HROPSHIRE ,AD ) LOVE THIS MUSIC AND ALSO THE EVOCATIVE POETRY OF ! % (OUSMAN "UTTERWORTH MAY HAVE ACHIEVED A MUCH GREATER REPUTATION HAD HE NOT SUFFERED THE SAME FATE AS SO MANY OTHER YOUNG MEN IN THE TRENCHES OF THE 3OMME IN

4HE #OMPLETE #HAMPIONS "LACK $YKE "AND CONDUCTED BY THE LATE GREAT -AJOR 0ETER 0ARKES &OUR WONDERFUL PIECES OF MUSIC PLAYED BY ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS OF ALL TIME AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS POWER .EED ) SAY MORE 'URRELIEDER !RNOLD 3CHOENBERG 7HILST IN MY THIRD YEAR AT COLLEGE ) WAS ASKED AT SHORT NOTICE TO JOIN THE 'USTAV -AHLER 9OUTH /RCHESTRA 7E SPENT A LONG AND BEAUTIFUL SUMMER TOURING )TALY 'ERMANY AND !USTRIA PLAYING THIS WONDERFUL GARGANTUAN PIECE OF MUSIC 4RULY UNFORGETTABLE +IND OF "LUE 4HIS IS AN INSPIRATIONAL ALBUM BY THE -ILES $AVIS 3EXTET RELEASED IN !LL THE TRACKS ARE BASED ON VERY SIMPLE MODAL PROGRESSIONS AND ARE PINNED TOGETHER BY THE COOLEST SUBTLEST

7HEREVER 9ET -AY "E IS THE LATEST ALBUM FROM ONE OF MY FAVOURITE 3COTTISH TRADITIONAL BANDS /LD "LIND $OGS ) LISTEN TO A LOT OF FOLK AND TRADITIONAL MUSIC ) SUPPOSE ITlS QUITE FAR REMOVED FROM CLASSICAL BRASS PLAYING BUT ) HAD NO CHOICE AS ) MARRIED INTO A FOLK MUSIC LOVING FAMILY &OR MY LAST CHOICE )lM CHEATING )N CHOOSING A COMPILATION ALBUM )lM GETTING ODD TRACKS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE ) DO LOVE S POP MUSIC AND 4OP OF THE 0OPS WAS A 4HURSDAY NIGHT TREAT FOR ME AND MY SISTER AS CHILDREN !LL OF US OVER A CERTAIN AGE WILL APPRECIATE $URAN $URAN

+# AND THE 3UNSHINE "AND 0HIL #OLLINS

0AUL 9OUNG TO NAME ONLY A FEW )T CAN ONLY BEa.OW 4HATlS 7HAT ) #ALL -USIC 6OL 9OU WILL NOTICE THAT IN MY EIGHT DESERT ISLAND CHOICES THERE ARE NO SPECIüC kTROMBONEl CHOICES ) HAVE NOT DELIBERATELY BEEN DISRESPECTFUL OF THE WONDERFUL RECORDINGS BY #HRISTIAN ,INDBERG *OE !LESSI &RANK 2OSOLINO

AND SO ON )TlS JUST THAT FOR ME THE TROMBONE IS A BACKGROUND INSTRUMENT ! GOOD SECTION SOUNDS WONDERFUL IN A -AHLER SYMPHONY A üLM SCORE OR A BIG BAND CHART BUT AS A SOLO INSTRUMENT WE ARE LIMITED BY LACK OF REPERTOIRE BY kREALl COMPOSERS AND A GENERAL APATHY TOWARDS THE INSTRUMENT FROM CONDUCTORS

RECORDING ENGINEERS ETC )F ) WERE TO ANSWER THE ORIGINAL REMIT AND GIVE SOME IDEA OF MY MUSICAL INÄŒUENCES

) WOULD HAVE TO SAY THAT ) AM MOST INÄŒUENCED BY THE GREAT PLAYERS IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS ) HAVE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO PLAY ALONGSIDE AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER 0LAYERS LIKE (ELEN 6OLLAM "YRON &ULCHER

$UDLEY "RIGHT AND -ARK 4EMPLETON TO NAME JUST FOUR ,ONDON PLAYERS ARE AMONGST THE üNEST IN THE WORLD 7HENEVER ) üND MYSELF IN THE COMPANY OF SUCH GREAT MUSICIANS ) üND THAT MY OWN PLAYING IMPROVES JUST TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH THEM

$UNCAN 7ILSON STUDIED AT THE 'UILDHALL 3CHOOL OF -USIC AND $RAMA AND HAS BEEN A FREELANCE TROMBONE EUPHONIUM AND BASS TRUMPET PLAYER FOR YEARS (E WORKS ON A REGULAR BASIS WITH MOST OF THE 5+lS MAJOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS AND IS ALSO THE -USICAL $IRECTOR OF +IDLINGTON #ONCERT "RASS A ST 3ECTION CONTESTING BRASS BAND BASED IN /XFORDSHIRE

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Youth Brass in Concert 2011 in association with Yamaha and British Bandsman Saturday 19 November Youth Brass in Concert Workshops 9.15am Brass Taster session 11.00am sponsored by Yamaha & Shaw Trust Free Concert 2.30pm Rochdale Borough Youth Band Action Research National Youth Entertainment Champions 2011, conducted by Eric Landon also including the Workshop Band Free tickets available from The Sage Gateshead Box Office: Tel: 0191 443 4661 www.thesagegateshead.org

Also available Saturday 19 November World of Brass in Concert 7.30pm featuring The International Staff Band conducted by Stephen Cobb Brass Band of Central Florida conducted by Chad Shoopman Tickets: £22, £16, £10

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Sunday 20 November Brass in Concert Championship 2011 The world’s leading entertainment-based brass band championship.

Tickets: £25, £20, £12

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NEW REPERTOIRE

Rob Wiffin !LTHOUGH THE TROMBONE WAS MY INSTRUMENT BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN ) WAS PLAYING ) WAS RELUCTANT TO WRITE FOR IT WHEN ) TOOK UP COMPOSING AND ARRANGING ) DID A FEW ARRANGEMENTS FOR TROMBONE ENSEMBLE AND RHYTHM SECTION FOR 2!& CONCERTS BUT ) WAS FOR SOME REASON RETICENT TO WRITE FOR IT AS A SOLO INSTRUMENT 7HILE ) WAS HAPPY TO WRITE SOLOS FOR CLARINET OBOE

ČUTE AND GUITAR THE TROMBONE WAS SOMEHOW TOO CLOSE 4HEN

A FEW YEARS AGO 3TAN +ITCHEN OF 3TUDIO -USIC RANG TO SAY THAT "RETT "AKER WAS LOOKING FOR NEW MATERIAL FOR A RECORDING AND WOULD ) BE INTERESTED IN WRITING SOMETHING ) HAD BEEN PLAYING SOME ,ATIN JAZZ OUT IN 3PAIN SO ) THOUGHT ) WOULD WRITE SOMETHING IN THAT VEIN !T üRST ) CONSIDERED AN UNACCOMPANIED PIECE USING THE EXTREME RANGES OF THE INSTRUMENT SO THAT IT ALMOST FELT LIKE TWO PLAYERS WERE INVOLVED IN A CALL AND RESPONSE 0ARTS OF THAT IDEA WERE KEPT IN WHAT üNISHED UP AS 3HOUT 4HE TITLE ALSO ALLUDES TO THE CONCEPT OF A SHOUT CHORUS WITH ITS EXTREMES OF RANGE AND DYNAMICS !T THE TIME OF WRITING 3HOUT ) HAD BEEN TRYING TO DISCIPLINE MYSELF TO MAKE MY MUSIC EASIER AND WAS üNDING IT DIFüCULT )T WAS THEREFORE A RELEASE TO BE ABLE TO WRITE WITHOUT TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS ) DID NOT SET OUT TO MAKE THE SOLO DIFüCULT BUT AT ONE STAGE "RETT RANG AND ASKED HOW DIFüCULT IT WAS m7ELL n ) REPLIED

m) CAN STILL PLAY IT n m4HEN MAKE IT MORE DIFüCULT n SAID "RETT /NCE 3HOUT WAS DONE AN OLD FRIEND #HRIS *EANS ASKED FOR A PIECE FOR A RECITAL HE WAS GIVING #HRISlS SURNAME PROVIDED THE CREATIVE IMPETUS FOR "LUE *EANS WHICH LIKE 3HOUT HAS ELEMENTS OF WRITTEN OUT JAZZ SOLOS AND CAME OUT OF THE TYPE OF MUSIC ) WAS PLAYING ON GIGS MYSELF ) WAS PLEASED WHEN IT MADE IT ONTO THE 'RADE !"23- LIST "RETT THEN COMMISSIONED A TROMBONE CONCERTO 4HIS WAS A WHOLE DIFFERENT BALL GAME AND FOR A LONG WHILE ) WAS STYMIED BY THE SCALE OF SUCH AN UNDERTAKING ESPECIALLY AS ) WAS NOW BACK TO WORKING FOR A LIVING AND HAD LITTLE TIME TO WRITE )N THE SUMMER OF ) WAS DETERMINED TO HAVE A REAL GO AT IT OR GIVE IT UP &IVE WEEKS LATER THE CONCERTO WAS üNISHED IN THE VERSION FOR TROMBONE AND PIANO 7HILE WANTING TO TEST THE INSTRUMENT ) DID NOT SET OUT TO MAKE THE CONCERTO DIFüCULT 4HE üRST MOVEMENT WAS REALLY A MATTER OF GETTING THE RIGHT THEMATIC IDEAS AND BALANCING THE TUTTI AND SOLO PASSAGES &OR FORMAL STRUCTURE ) STUDIED THE 'ORDON *ACOB #ONCERTO ) REALISED THEN THAT THIS CONCERTO WAS INEVITABLY GOING TO BE ABOUT MY EXPERIENCES AS A TROMBONE PLAYER 4HERE IS A LYRICAL SECTION PRECEDING THE üRST !LLEGRO THAT OWES MUCH IN SPIRIT TO 4HE %TERNAL 1UEST 2AY 3TEADMAN !LLENlS MARVELLOUS 3ALVATION !RMY SOLO

ORCHESTRA IN 3IBELIUSl SEVENTH SYMPHONY !RTHUR 7ILSON THAT GREAT EXPONENT OF THE SINGING STYLE AND MY TEACHER AT COLLEGE

DIED IN THE SUMMER SO IT SEEMED APPROPRIATE TO DEDICATE THIS MOVEMENT TO HIM 4HE LAST MOVEMENT IS THE LIGHTEST OF THE THREE IN STYLE AND IS SLIGHTLY JAZZ INČECTED AND HOPEFULLY PROVIDES SOME FUN FOR THE SOLOIST ALSO PRESENTED ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE FOR TROMBONE QUARTET WITH A COMMISSION FROM THE 2!& RESULTING IN AN ARRANGEMENT OF 0EREZ 0RADOlS -AMBO .O ENTITLED 4ROMBONE .O 4HE HIGH QUALITY OF THE SOLOISTS AGAIN MEANT THAT TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS WERE NOT A CONSIDERATION 'REAT

4HE SLOW MOVEMENT SEEMED DETERMINED TO COME OUT IN THE VEIN OF A 2ICHARD 3TRAUSS SONG ) WANTED TO WRITE SOMETHING INELUCTABLY kCANTABILEl AS WE TROMBONE PLAYERS RARELY GET A CHANCE TO PLAY THE MELODY 4HERE IS A BRIEF ALLUSION TO THAT WONDERFUL MOMENT WHEN THE TROMBONE GETS TO SING ABOVE THE

) SINCERELY HOPE THAT MY TROMBONE PLAYING COLLEAGUES GAIN SOME PLEASURE FROM THESE PIECES 3HOUT AND "LUE *EANS ARE AVAILABLE WITH PIANO BRASS BAND OR WIND BAND ACCOMPANIMENTS FROM 3TUDIO -USIC #OMPANY 4HE TROMBONE CONCERTO SHOULD BE AVAILABLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE

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4HE AMAZING P"ONE BY *AMES 3TRETTON

4HERE CANlT BE MANY TROMBONISTS OR INDEED BRASS PLAYERS WHO HAVENlT HEARD SEEN OR EVEN PLAYED A P"ONE &OR THOSE WHO HAVENlT HEARD OF THE PHENOMENON ITlS A PLASTIC TROMBONE

AVAILABLE MORE ABOUT THAT LATER FROM WWW P"ONE CO UK

INTRODUCED IN /CTOBER 3O WHAT ISNlT THERE TO LIKE ABOUT SUCH A BARGAIN BONE 4HEY COME IN A RANGE OF COLOURS AND ACOUSTICALLY THEY FUNCTION WELL IN ALL REGISTERS AND DYNAMICS (OWEVER IT WOULD BE FAIR TO SAY THAT THE HIGHER AND LOUDER YOU PLAY THE NARROWER THE GAP BECOMES BETWEEN A PLASTIC AND kNORMALl TROMBONEa 4HE ONE SERIOUS DRAWBACK IS THE NOISE AND FUNCTION OF THE SLIDE

WHICH IS FAR INFERIOR TO A WELL KEPT METAL SLIDE (OWEVER LETlS REMEMBER THE FABULOUS PRICE )F YOU BOUGHT A METAL TROMBONE IN A JUNK SHOP FOR ü FTY QUID THE SLIDE WOULD BE NO BETTER 4HE P"ONE SLIDE IS STIFF AND NOISY BUT THERElS LOTS OF CHAT ON THE &ACEBOOK P"ONE GROUP ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE AND SUITABLE LUBRICATION OF SAID SLIDE 4HE DEBATE CONTINUES BUT )lVE BEEN ASSURED THAT THE SLIDES IMPROVE CONSIDERABLY WITH PROLONGED USE )T HAS PROVED TO BE DIFü CULT TO ACTUALLY GET YOUR HAND ON A P"ONE SINCE ITlS LAUNCH IN WITH DEMAND FAR OUTSTRIPPING SUPPLY AND MANY kNEWl SECOND HAND P"ONES BEING SOLD ON EBAY ) SPOKE TO MANAGING DIRECTOR OF P"ONE #HRIS &OWER TO ASK HIM ABOUT THEIR UNIQUE PRODUCT &IRSTLY ) ASKED HIM ABOUT THE HISTORY OF P"ONE mP"ONE STARTED LIFE AS A COTTAGE INDUSTRY IN 7ARWICKSHIRE THE BRAINCHILD OF ENGINEERING DESIGN GRADUATE (UGH 2ASHLEIGH (OWEVER WITH ENORMOUS INTEREST IN THIS INNOVATIVE PRODUCT FROM BOTH THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL MARKETS IT WAS CLEAR WE HAD TO RETHINK OUR PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION METHODS IN ORDER TO SURPASS THE k UNITS A YEAR PLANl WE WERE WORKING TO n 3O WHEN WILL IT BECOME EASIER TO GET HOLD OF A P"ONE m0RETTY EARLY ON IT BECAME OBVIOUS TO US THAT OUR COMPANY DID NOT HAVE THE CONSIDERABLE RESOURCES NEEDED TO BRING P"ONE TO THE INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE IT DESERVED SO WE WERE DELIGHTED WHEN WE RECENTLY SIGNED A WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH #ONN 3ELMER P"ONE WILL NOW BECOME KNOWN AS k*IGGS P"ONEl WITH *IGGS 7HIGHAM AS ITS WORLDWIDE AMBASSADOR 2ASHLEIGH ,TD WILL CONTINUE TO DISTRIBUTE P"ONE IN THE 5+ -ASS PRODUCTION WILL BEGIN IN EARNEST IN *UNE SO WE EXPECT SUBSTANTIAL AND CONTINUOUS STOCK LEVELS TO HIT BOTH THE 5+ AND #ONN 3ELMER IN EARLY 3EPTEMBER BEGINNING IN THE 5+ WITH THE RETURN OF THE RED P"ONE n

7HEN ASKED ABOUT FUTURE PRICING HE WENT ON TO SAY m4HERE WILL BE A INCREASE IN PRICE FOR VARIOUS REASONS COSTS IN #HINA HAVE RISEN STEEPLY WE ARE NOT YET 6!4 REGISTERED WE MUST CONCENTRATE ON MANUFACTURING SO WILL NEED A RETAIL PARTNER WHO CAN DELIVER THE LEVEL OF CUSTOMER SERVICE THAT P"ONE USERS DESERVE AND ALSO BECAUSE WE ARE OBLIGATED TO HAVE A PRICE IN THE 5+ THAT DOES NOT UNDERCUT OUR DISTRIBUTORS IN THE REST OF THE WORLD )T WILL HOWEVER IN DUE COURSE CERTAINLY BECOME EASIER TO BUY A P"ONE IN THE 5+ n &OR STUDENTS CHILDREN SCHOOL WORKSHOPS CARNIVAL GIGS HOLIDAY PRACTISE AND FUN PARTY OCCASIONS THE P"ONE IS THE BUSINESS -IGHTILY IMPRESSED *AMES 3TRETTON

P"ONE PRESS RELEASE )T IS STILL LESS THAN A YEAR SINCE P"ONE WAS INTRODUCED TO THE 5+ 7HAT A YEAR IT HAS BEEN $EMAND FOR THE INSTRUMENT HAS TOTALLY OUTSTRIPPED ALL EXPECTATIONS SEEING OVER INSTRUMENTS SOLD BETWEEN /CTOBER AND -AY IN JUST EIGHT MONTHS DURING WHICH WE WERE MAINLY OUT OF STOCK 7E HAD TO GO kBACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDl AND FULLY INDUSTRIALISE PRODUCTION IN ORDER TO INCREASE QUANTITIES WHILST MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING QUALITY AND CONSISTENCY !LONGSIDE THIS IT BECAME CLEAR THAT WE COULD NOT BUILD AN INFRASTRUCTURE TO SELL AROUND THE WORLD TO ALL WHO WANTED A P"ONE 4HEREFORE P"ONE HAS FOUND PARTNERS TO WORK WITH IN ORDER TO FACILITATE SALES 7ARWICK -USIC FOR RETAIL SALES IN THE 5+ AND WORLD WIDE WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION VIA #ONN 3ELMER )NC .EEDLESS TO SAY ALL THIS WORK IMPROVING PRODUCTION BUILDING NEW BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS AND OUR RECENT REGISTRATION FOR 6!4 IN THE 5+ ALONGSIDE RAPIDLY RISING COSTS IN #HINA AND HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PRICE OF P"ONE 4HE LARGEST INCREASE WILL COME FROM THE ADDITION OF 6!4 AT PERCENT WHICH WE PREVIOUSLY DIDNlT HAVE TO CHARGE 4HE 5+ RETAIL PRICE OF P"ONE FROM 3EPTEMBER WILL BE ã INCLUDING 6!4 2ED P"ONES CAN BE PRE ORDERED EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH 7ARWICK -USIC AT WWW PBONE CO UK FROM 3EPTEMBER FOR 3EPTEMBER DISPATCH )N KEEPING WITH 7ARWICKlS LONG ESTABLISHED POLICY

DELIVERY WILL BE FREE IN THE 5+ FOR P"ONE CUSTOMERS &OR ALL ORDERS OUTSIDE OF THE 5+ PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL #ONN 3ELMER DEALER #HRIS &OWER AND 3TEVE 'REENALL $IRECTORS

)ESTYN (ARDING 6OCO FOR TROMBONE CHOIR /NE OF THE MANY HIGHLIGHTS OF THE RECENT 4IDDLY 4ROMS DAY IN 3OUTH 7ALES DISCUSSED ON PAGE WAS THE WORLD PREMIÄ¡RE OF A NEW WORK FOR EIGHT PART TROMBONE CHOIR BY )ESTYN (ARDING 7RITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE PERFORMERS AT THIS "43 EVENT THE ,ATIN TITLE 6OCO MEANS kCALLl AND IS TAKEN FROM THE INSCRIPTION FOUND ON THE BELLS FOUND IN MANY %UROPEAN CHURCH TOWERS k6IVOS VOCOl ) CALL THE LIVING 4HE SHORT PIECE OPENS WITH A SOLEMN CHANT LIKE IDEA WHICH IS ANSWERED BY A SERIES OF BELL EFFECT CHORDS 4HIS INTRODUCES THE MAIN BODY OF THE PIECE WHICH IS FASTER MORE RHYTHMIC AND BASED AROUND THE SAME NOTES HEARD INITIALLY -AKING USE OF

DYNAMIC CONTRASTS AND ANTIPHONAL EXCHANGES THE PIECE MOVES TOWARD A ROUSING ü NISH $ONAL "ANNISTER EXPERTLY GUIDED THE kREDl GROUP AND THE 27#-$ STUDENTS THROUGH THE PIECE WHICH CHALLENGED THEM BOTH RHYTHMICALLY AND IN ITS MORE CONTEMPORARY IDIOM

ACHIEVING AN ASSURED AND CONVINCING PERFORMANCE WHICH WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY GREETED BY THE AUDIENCE )ESTYN (ARDING IS A 7ELSH COMPOSER AND HAS WRITTEN WIDELY

INCLUDING WORKS PERFORMED BY THE ""# .ATIONAL /RCHESTRA OF 7ALES (E IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A BRASS QUINTET

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Successful Practising BY *ENNY -ACMILLAN

!SPIRING MUSICIANS ARE TOLD TO DO IT -USIC TEACHERS SPEND EVERY DAY TELLING OTHERS TO DO IT %VERYONE WHO PLAYS A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT KNOWS THEY SHOULD BE DOING IT AND MOST OF US AT SOME POINT ON OUR MUSICAL JOURNEY HAVE TRIED TO AVOID IT 0RACTISE )TlS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN IMPROVE OUR INSTRUMENTAL SKILLS AND SOMETHING WE KNOW WE SHOULD DO REGULARLY "UT WHAT IS PRACTISE (OW SHOULD WE PRACTISE 7HERE !ND HOW LONG FOR !LL THESE QUESTIONS AND MANY MORE ARE ANSWERED IN *ENNY -ACMILLANlS 3UCCESSFUL 0RACTISING ! HANDBOOK FOR PUPILS

PARENTS AND MUSIC TEACHERS *ENNY -ACMILLAN IS A SUCCESSFUL AND EXPERIENCED 3UZUKI PIANO TEACHER AND IT WOULD SEEM THAT THE ADVICE GIVEN THROUGHOUT THE BOOK IS SUGGESTIVE OF MANY YEARS OF PRACTICE ON HOW TO TEACH CHILDREN TO PRACTISE 4HE BOOK IS SEPARATED INTO TWO SECTIONS 3ECTION ONE CREATING A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND 3ECTION TWO HOW TO PRACTISE 4HE ü RST SECTION DISCUSSES HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR OPTIMUM PRACTICE THIS SECTION IS SEPARATED INTO THREE CHAPTERS

ONE EACH FOCUSSING ON PARENTS TEACHERS AND PUPILS 4HE SECOND SECTION GETS DOWN TO THE REAL NITTY GRITTY OF HOW TO PRACTISE IN GREAT DETAIL .O STONE HAS BEEN LEFT UNTURNED HERE

WHETHER YOU WANT ADVICE ON PRACTISING SCALES HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SIGHT READING OR YOU SIMPLY WANT TO LEARN HOW TO TAKE EFFECTIVE NOTES IN A LESSON YOU WILL ü ND EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW IN THE CHAPTERS IN THIS SECTION 4HE CHAPTERS ARE ALSO SET OUT VERY CLEARLY SO WHETHER YOU WANT TO READ THE WHOLE BOOK FROM COVER TO COVER OR ü ND A SPECIü C ELEMENT OF PRACTISE TO RESEARCH EVERYTHING IS VERY EASY TO ü ND 4HE AUDIENCE OF THE BOOK IS PRIMARILY ADULTS AND WOULD BE UNDERSTOOD BEST BY TEACHERS 0ARENTS WHO PERHAPS LACK MUSICAL

KNOWLEDGE BUT ARE KEEN TO TAKE AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THEIR CHILDlS MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT WOULD ALSO BENEü T GREATLY FROM THE BOOK ) THINK KEEN OLDER STUDENTS POST GRADE ü VE

THOSE THINKING ABOUT FURTHERING THEIR MUSIC EDUCATION AND INDEED THOSE IN -USIC #OLLEGE COULD ü ND SECTIONS OF THE BOOK TO BE OF GREAT USE PARTICULARLY SECTIONS ON LEARNING SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS AND HOW TO TACKLE NEW PIECES 4HOSE FAMILIAR WITH THE 3UZUKI METHOD WILL IDENTIFY WITH MANY OF THE POINTS THAT *ENNY -ACMILLAN COVERS IN HER BOOK SUCH AS LISTENING TO AND BEING ENGAGED IN MUSIC FROM AN EARLY AGE PLAYING FROM MEMORY AND LISTENING TO OTHER STUDENTS IN MUSIC LESSONS !S BRASS PLAYERS PARTICULARLY TROMBONE PLAYERS WE ARE NOT SO FAMILIAR WITH THE 3UZUKI METHOD OF TEACHING AS IT IS USUALLY STARTED AT A YOUNG AGE HENCE WHY THE 3UZUKI METHOD IS POPULAR WITH PIANISTS AND STRING INSTRUMENTALISTS -OST OF US GENERALLY START TO PLAY THE TROMBONE WHEN WE ARE OLDER MAYBE EVEN SECONDARY SCHOOL AGE 4HEREFORE THERE ARE SOME CHAPTERS AND EXAMPLES USED WHICH ARE AIMED AT PIANISTS AND STRING PLAYERS THAT MAY BE IRRELEVANT TO OLDER TROMBONISTS ) THINK THAT MOST OF US HOWEVER CAN TAKE SOMETHING USEFUL FROM MOST OF THE CHAPTERS AND FOR THE SERIOUS ASPIRING TROMBONE PLAYER ) WOULD UNRESERVEDLY RECOMMEND TO BUY A COPY OF THIS BOOK PARTICULARLY IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE HIT A BRICK WALL WITH AN ELEMENT OF YOUR PERFORMANCE OR IF YOU ARE SIMPLY LOOKING FOR DIFFERENT WAYS TO ENHANCE YOUR TIME IN THE PRACTISE ROOM *O (IRST

Slide Partners ) AM A MASSIVE FAN OF BOTH *OSEPH !LESSI AND !RTHUR 0RYOR SO ) HAVE WAITED EAGERLY FOR THE RELEASE OF THIS #$ WHICH ) KNOW HAS BEEN IN PRODUCTION SINCE 4O THEN ü ND OUT THAT 3TEVE $ILLON OF $ILLON MUSIC IN .EW *ERSEY WAS INVOLVED LED TO UNCONTAINED EXCITEMENT FROM MYSELF 3TEVE $ILLON IS A LEADING AUTHORITY WHEN IT COMES TO !RTHUR 0RYOR SO THE EFFORT AND RESEARCH INTO SOME OF THESE PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD TRACKS AND THE IDEA OF PLAYING DUETS BY PLAYING ALONG WITH WAX CYLINDER RECORDINGS OF !RTHUR 0RYOR MUST HAVE TAKEN A GREAT DEAL OF PATIENCE AND VISION AND ) COMMEND 3TEVE IN HIS PERSISTENCE WITH THIS PROJECT 4HE #$ IS BROKEN DOWN INTO ü VE SECTIONS TROMBONE WITH ORGAN

TROMBONE WITH PIANO DUETS WITH 0HILIP 3MITH TWO TROMBONE QUARTETS AND THEN DUETS WITH 0RYOR 4HE ü RST TRACK IS A FAMILIAR MELODY 4HE (OLY #ITY 4HOUGH IT WORKS WELL WITH ORGAN ) WOULD HAVE PREFERRED A MORE UPBEAT NUMBER TO START BUT IT DEü NITELY SHOWS !LESSIlS QUALITY OF MUSICIANSHIP FROM THE START /NE 3WEETLY 3OLEMN 4HOUGHT IS A SOLO ) HAVE NOT HEARD BEFORE AND ENJOYED IT THOROUGHLY ITlS "LUE "ELLS OF 3COTLAND IN ALL BUT NAME -Y FAVOURITE TRACK IS 0ARISIAN -ELODIES THIS PIECE IS FRESH AND PURE !RTHUR 0RYOR ) FOUND THE LIKES OF &OREVER AND !FTER 3UNSET AND THE 0ALMS A LITTLE TOO SIMILAR IN CHARACTER AND SO WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO SEE THEM SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE DISK FOR VARIETY 4HEY ARE NEVER THE LESS WELCOME PIECES TO THE EVER GROWING TROMBONE LITERATURE THAT AGAIN ) HAD NOT HEARD BEFORE 4HE SHEET MUSIC FOR MANY OF THE TRACKS ON THIS #$ IS AVAILABLE FROM $ILLON MUSIC AND ) AM SURE THEY WILL BECOME EXTREMELY POPULAR SOLOS )T IS FABULOUS TO HEAR SOMEONE OF !LESSIlS STATURE AND MUSICIANSHIP PLAYING THESE PIECES WHETHER SOLOS OR DUETS

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AND THE INCLUSION OF SOME NEW DUETS WITH 0HILIP 3MITH ON CORNET ARE A PLEASURE TO LISTEN TO 3IMILARLY MAYBE THEY WOULD WORK BETTER IF SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE DISK 3WEET AND ,OW IS TRACK AND ) HAVE HEARD THIS IN MANY GUISES BUT UNDOUBTEDLY IT IS PLAYED HERE WITH FEELING AND SENSITIVITY 4HE (UNGARIAN 2HAPSODY SEEMS OUT OF PLACE ON THIS DISK COMPARED WITH THE OTHER PIECES BUT IS AN ENJOYABLE ADDITION AND IS PLAYED WITH THE ü NESSE AND VIRTUOSITY YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM !LESSI &INLAYSON

$AVISON AND -ARKEY 4HEN WE COME TO TWO VERY INTERESTING DUETS WHERE !LESSI PLAYS ALONG WITH 0RYOR THIS IS ENTERTAINING INDEED AND IS A NOVEL CONCEPT THAT WORKS WELL &OR THIS RECORDING !LESSI NOT ONLY PLAYED ALONG TO THE OLD RECORDINGS OF 0RYOR BUT ALSO PLAYED ON 0RYORlS TROMBONE )T IS HERE THAT YOU CAN HEAR THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN !LESSIlS AND 0RYORlS APPROACH TO VIBRATO ) AM SLIGHTLY DISAPPOINTED THAT THERE IS NOT MORE INFORMATION IN THE BOOKLET ABOUT THE PROJECT AND ALTHOUGH WEBSITES OF $ILLON -USIC AND !RTHURPRYOR COM DO CONTAIN MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE WHOLE PROJECT THERE ARE NOT ALWAYS SPECIü CS ON THE PIECES RECORDED /VERALL THIS IS A SPLENDID DISK WHICH WILL BE POPULAR INDEED ü NE PLAYING AND PROFESSIONALLY PRODUCED -Y ONLY SLIGHT RESERVATIONS WERE THE PLAINNESS OF THE DISK COVER AND THE ORDER OF THE TRACKS "RETT "AKER

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DIARY DATES

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%AST 2IDING OF 9ORKSHIRE (5 ,0 #ONTACT 'EOFF 7OLMARK SECRETARY BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG 3UNDAY /CTOBER AM 2EGISTRATION %AST !NGLIA 4ROMBONE $AY AND !NNUAL 'ENERAL -EETING !RTISTS 4"! /UNDLE 3CHOOL /UNDLE 0ETERBOROUGH 0% '( #ONTACT EASTANGLIA BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG 3ATURDAY $ECEMBER PM .ORTH 7EST 2EGIONAL %VENT 7ORKSHOP WITH #ITY OF #HESTER 4RAINING "AND WWW CHESTERBRASS CO UK 7ORKSHOP WITH "RETT "AKER PM "43 MEMBERS FREE #ONCERT AT PM WITH "LACK $YKE 4ROMBONE 1UARTET 2OCK &ERRY 3ALVATION !RMY (ALL /LD #HESTER 2OAD 2OCK &ERRY #( 4" 3UNDAY TH *ANUARY AM 2EGISTRATION .ORTH %AST 4ROMBONE $AY (UDDERSü ELD 5NIVERSITY !RTISTS INCLUDE $AVUR *UUL -AGNUSSEN 0RINCIPAL 4ROMBONE OF THE 2OYAL 3COTTISH .ATIONAL /RCHESTRA 3CHOOL OF -USIC (UMANITIES AND -EDIA #REATIVE !RTS "UILDING 4HE 5NIVERSITY OF (UDDERSü ELD 1UEENSGATE (UDDERSü ELD ($ $( #ONTACT PRESIDENT BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG

3ATURDAY &EBRUARY AM 2EGISTRATION 3OUTH 7EST 4ROMBONE $AY "RISTOL %ASTON #ORP OF THE 3ALVATION !RMY &EATURING "RETT "AKER "RISTOL %ASTON "RASS "AND (ASSELL $RIVE "RISTOL "3 !. #ONTACT PRESIDENT BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG 3UNDAY &EBRUARY AM 2EGISTRATION .ORTH 7EST 4ROMBONE $AY &EATURING *IGGS 7HIGHAM 0EEL (ALL 5NIVERSITY OF 3ALFORD 3ALFORD - 74 #ONTACT +ERRY "ALDWIN NORTHWEST BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG 3ATURDAY &EBRUARY AM 2EGISTRATION -IDLANDS 4ROMBONE $AY &EATURING #HRIS *EANS AND "RETT "AKER ,EICESTER 'RAMMAR 3CHOOL ,ONDON 2OAD 'REAT 'LEN

,EICESTER ,% &, #ONTACT "EN (ENDERSON MIDLANDS BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG 3ATURDAY -ARCH "43 "ROMLEY 4ROMBONE $AY &EATURING $UDLEY "RIGHT PRINCIPAL TROMBONE ,ONDON 3YMPHONY /RCHESTRA "RETT "AKER "ONE A ü DE 1UARTET "LACK $YKE 1UARTET "ROMLEY 3ALVATION !RMY 4EMPLE #ORPS %THELBERT 2OAD "ROMLEY "2 (5 #ONTACT 2ICHARD $EBONNAIRE RICH DEBONNAIRE ME COM OR #HRIS -ACKEY SOUTH BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG 3UNDAY -AY .ORTH %AST 4ROMBONE &OCUS "LACK $YKE "AND &ESTIVAL ,EEDS 4OWN (ALL 4HE (EADROW ,EEDS ,3 !$ #ONTACT 0AUL 7OODWARD NORTHEAST BRITISHTROMBONESOCIETY ORG 3ATURDAY AND 3UNDAY -AY "43 .ATIONAL %VENT FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS FROM THE 53!

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